Read the passage and answer. Social media promised to bring the world closer, and in many ways it has: families separated by oceans can now see one another daily. Yet the same platforms are engineered to capture attention, and their algorithms reward content that provokes outrage, because outrage keeps users scrolling. The result is a paradox: we are more connected than ever and, at the same time, more divided. Recognising how these systems work is the first step towards using them, rather than being used by them. The author's main purpose is to:

1. praise social media without reservation
2. encourage readers to understand and use social media wisely
3. explain how to build an algorithm
4. ban social media

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