All due respect to Jaron but this idea is a non-starter for anyone that is used to the current form of individualized social media. I have been thinking about this issue for some time now and the main driver of all the anti-social behavior is the metrics that the platforms expose to the participants, e.g. likes, retweets, impressions, etc. Take away the numbers and the incentive for acting like an anti-social narcissist goes away. This especially includes the follower counts. Without the follower counts Tim Pool is just another crank, but when people see 1M+ followers they think he has something worthwhile to say when the reality is he's just another shock jock.<p>It's the same for anyone with a large number of followers. If you have the web development chops you can write a chrome extension to get rid of all the counters and notice how much different the entire experience becomes. Without the useless stats you will start paying attention to the content instead of its perceived social popularity. The irrelevant statistics make it seem like social media is a game when in fact it's not.