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Sciam Art credit: jaybendt.com/ In this month’s edition of Scientific American magazine, Wade Roush comments on social networks' potential deleterious impact on emotional well-being. ( Scientific American May 2019 : Turning Off the Emotion Pump)  He prompts, "Are there better social technologies than Facebook?" and cites previous attempts such as now-defunct Path and still struggling Diaspora as potential promising developments. I don’t wish to detract from the contemporary concerns about notification overload and privacy leaks. But I’d like to highlight the positive side of social platforms for spurring creative collaboration and suggest an approach to potentially expand the positive impacts they can facilitate in the future. I think the answer to his question is: More diversity of platforms and better utilities needed. 
 In our current era, everyone is a participant, in some way, in the authorship of the web. That's a profound and positive thing. We ...