New social platforms promise more control. Different spaces for work, friends, and ideas you are not ready to share widely. At first, that sounds freeing. You get to choose who sees what, and nothing leaks where it should not.
But when everything is separated, something odd happens. Ideas stop mixing. What you learn in one space never meets what you feel or experience in another. Thinking becomes quieter, smaller, and more alone. Privacy stays safe, but growth slows down.
Real trust and strong ideas come from continuity. From seeing the same person think, learn, and change over time. Privacy matters, but when it becomes absolute, people stop meeting each other. And knowledge that never moves stops being shared. It just sits there.