It amuses me to think that people like to correct much more than to help. If you need answers, deep or easy doesn't matter, pretend you know what you're talking about and say something nonsensical or stupid. You'll get a lot of interesting responses, and sometimes even start a fight. To connect to your speech, people like to feel like they're smarter than others.

Maybe it's (distantly) related to the law of triviality: the simpler something is, the more people add their opinion, simply because they can, additionally to simple questions attracting not the brightest people (my hypothesis)

I find social media to be a platform for some people to release their pent-up frustrations since it is anonymous

For me is just the simple logic that people always need to have a word on something even if they don't know a dime about the thing they have opinions on. I am noticing this behavior more and more in real life and online (even worse than in real life). And it bothers me very much, to the point I am getting mad and avoiding those people. I am trying to be gentle, but this is not human nature. It is just egoism, disrespect, waste of time and so on. A kind of applied Dunning-Kruger effect...

All these idiots answering "3". Everyone is so confident these days

What? You read YouTube comments? How brave of you! 😅

The median IQ is 100. Explains everything.

I have a theory that although a lot of it is probably meaningless engagement bait on Facebook, like those posts with easy math questions or simply "Share X if you agree with Y", there is this distinct genre of post that seems to target boomers or less tech savvy folks.

Usually goes something like "URGENT - Facebook is changing x y z on April 15, this means [something terrible] but you can opt out just copy paste this paragraph into your personal page"

I suspect those types are meant to compile a list of accounts that are

Edit: sorry this reply started more on topic when I started typing and then went semi/unrelated to your main points. I'll blame sleepy time.

On topic though, maybe Facebook and YT comments need AI built in so all the comments can be @Grok IS THIS TRUE instead :P

On this notes, it's a very good question. So many social Media users feels they know too much, instead of taking time to give straight answers to a particular question, they began to either ask you questions, some will fight over answers why some will give a direct answer and gently leave the comment section. It's my humble experience so far.

Yeah, exactly these days FB and YT are full of trash. Filled with AI contents and lacking orginal content in most of the post. It's far better to use SN to read and write or share some useful resources in SN.

Lots of love for SN and Bitcoin 💘

People like to be special and right more than they like each other.

Truth is not the goal of social media, getting advertisers is the goal.

Advertisers like audiences who are frustrated, searching, and losing hope so that you are more likely to click on ads and pay for a solution.

Because it's engagement based, rather than consensus based.

Many social media users don’t actually want to answer. They just want to debate, to promote themselves, or to push their opinion. Your question becomes an excuse for them to speak, not to help.

Some people just like to argue. We have them here on SN too

Dead Internet Theory?

It's human nature, but the natural thing we're describing here is greed, through clickbaiting.