Personally, I have a grudge against the camera because of what it did to portraiture. But socially, the problematic invention was television--video broadly--insofar as it supplanted family and community. #NRx

Social media in general and Facialbook in particular.

SMS messaging. Not because I'm inherently opposed to the medium/technology, but because all of my older relatives treat it as though it had a different temporal register than social media messages and emails. As a result, family texts - especially with my in-laws - combine all of the problems inherent in written rhetoric with all of the impatience and expected immediacy of a phone call.

[2:59 PM] "How is your drive going?"
[3:02 PM] "Austin? How's your drive coming along?"
[3:12 PM] "R u home yet?"
[3:14 PM] "Austin?"
[3:16 PM] "Hellooooooooooooo"

You can get the same result with SMS in half an hour than you can get with a call in half a minute though? Don't you like spending more social time? 

Depends what country you're in but here and in the UK there's also a lot of commercials to start with.
The content is as low as it gets... People who live off social security for instance, and that's in both countries. It's not that they can't get work but McDonalds is too low for them. I ask you how we will get our burgers along the freeway otherwise.
Community events would be football here, the real one called soccer. I, as well as a lot of people I know are in no way interested in it but still it's a part of daily newscast, not including the sports section.
So we get shovelded what we don't want in the throat by a spoon.
And the strikes we see on the daily news? They aren't common in a lot of countries you know, in some countries I admire they're even illegal.
End rant.

Nothing woong with the medium but what if the prople controlling the medium introduce poor content? And the medium gets controlled by those people?