Teens are a big deal. I don’t have any input.

But for adults, as status seeking individuals we’ve been given a platform that allows us to efficiently vie for status against one another.

The innuendos, humble bragging, etc. how is that any different than driving a Porsche down the freeway? Is social media more pervasive, gamified, and convenient? Is that why it’s bad?

I subscribe to the idea that social media is society holding a mirror up to itself. It is certainly divisive, but if all that had ever prevented that division is this rapid dissemination we have now, is that really the platforms’ faults?

It’s just more raw, real, fake, and everything people are anyway.