15 May

What happens when you use social media as a platform for your actual life. It’s alarming when you think about it that tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are now providing the infrastructure for ordinary peoples’ social lives, invited into peoples’ most intimate inner sanctums, and then monetising it for commercial gain. They are literally owning our everyday lives now. This is doing terrible damage to people individually, through being plugged into an online culture of constant imitative comparison, with algorithms then feeding it into retail sales. And also to society as a whole, by re-routing all of our necessary adult decisions through the popularity contest of social media. Imagine mixing with people off social media who did nothing but talk about themselves all day. Each to their own.