Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel

The people who stretch a person’s sense of humanity may be the ones no algorithm currently selects.

By: Kevin B. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: September 4, 2026

Words: 1,226

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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By Kevin B. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania

The case against social media has gotten so well rehearsed that most people can easily merge it into ordinary conversation: It makes people lonely. It sorts them into camps. It hands them a room full of people who already agree with them and calls that a community.

I’ve given this speech myself, with feeling, having read my phone notifications in the host’s powder room 11 minutes earlier.

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