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Anecdotally, they seem to especially looooove FB and Nextdoor.
FB is so deeply enshittified that any time I check in there (really fucking rare, let me tell you) I seem to only see a lot of posts from the Crazy Uncle Liberties in my life sandwiched between so much sponsored content. FB was never perfect, but it's so much worse now.
And by the time I joined Nextdoor, it was already chock full of Karens trying to slip in their conservative (and racist, but I repeat myself) bullshit in between complaints about what "the kids are up to these days".
I just made a Nextdoor account a few weeks ago out of curiosity. Quickly regretting it. My neighbors are all the most paranoid fuckwits on the planet. Maybe if they weren't such nosy busybodies they wouldn't be so scared by things like black people existing in public or literally any unidentified substance they find being fentanyl.
It's not even the racist ones that disappoint me, I just kind of expect that from living in a community inhabited by mostly white middle class retirees, it's like the ones that are so devoid of critical thinking skills that they jump to wild conclusions based on nothing, and apparently that's just the way those people live their lives each day.
Found a bit of roadkill? Someone must be torturing and murdering the neighborhood pets and put their bodies on display! Call the police!
Found a one dollar bill tucked underneath your welcome mat? Someone must be casing your house and put that there to see if/when you collect it to know what times you are home! Call the police!
et cetera, you get the idea. I wish this was hyperbole, but the two examples above are real.
Yeah, honestly, it brings me back to my childhood and having to rub elbows with a lot of very, very stupid people, because of the area I lived in and how the stupidest kids tend to be loudest (and same with their parents) and so on. I could not be as selective then as I can now with who I choose to associate with.
Back then, things were done in meatspace and with analog tools. But it was quite stupid then, too. For example, the "blue stars" urban legend (before we knew of the term urban legend) was something just swallowed hook, line, and sinker - by most parents, by cops, by teachers....meanwhile, ~10 year me is wondering, wait, what? LSD is not even addictive, WTF. Also, kids back then had next to no discretionary income...why would you try to "hook" them on a non-addictive substance.
Same thing with so much stupid shit - the notion that the Satanic Church profited from arcade games. Or that a groundhog really did determine how long winter would last (kids my age absolutely fucking believed that well past the stage, and I think at least one parent seemingly did, unless they were just trying to amuse their junior high age child).
I guess all I'm saying is that Nextdoor amplifies this, but I've also had lots of evidence that there are just a LOT of very stupid people.