18 June

I was delighted to see this group go belly-up this week. Firstly because like all social media groups, it was destroying the town and the people in it. (Pretty much the whole town was a member.) But also because it’s a real-life proof of what I post about imitation, status rivalries, and social media. The admin shut the group down because those rivalries had become toxic. This group like all others started with the most innocent intent, to let people ‘connect’. But if you allow people to imitate and compare themselves with others, it will always lead to rivalry, rage and eventually violence. Another group will no doubt pop up to replace it. Like metastatic cancer.