Recently, there has been news regarding Facebook and its disregard for internal documents that acknowledge its harmful effects. Among said effects include damaging the self-image of teen girls using Instagram and the spread of misinformation, especially among users outside the USA. In fact, Zuckerberg complied with a censorship request by the Thai government, showing in one of many examples that it cares more about profit growth than free and/or truthful speech. As a late-20s "digital native" with an almost intimate knowledge of social media, riddle me this: what value can truly be put on each "like," "upvote," or other analogous units? Ultimately, in my many years using social media before deactivating many of my accounts, I have found the most satisfying social media is reality itself! Indeed, I have found the act of discussing something as ostensibly banal as the weather with someone in-person infinitely more entertaining, even besting the 100-plus "likes" I received on Instagram for a photo of a Maserati Gran Turismo. Even the act of texting an individual a photo I took, and having much more detailed feedback, will often be much more entertaining to me than receiving "likes."
Max Engel
East Lyme
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