Anonymous thoughts about social media.
The mechanism working below the level of knowing.
What it does to your sense of what you have and who you are.
The honest account that can't be posted where the problem is worst.
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Social media is designed to produce comparison, longing, and the ongoing performance of a self that's worth following. You know this. Knowing doesn't protect you. The mechanisms are below the level where knowing helps.
The honest account of what social media does to your sense of self, your sense of your life, your sense of what you have and don't have — that's not the account that gets posted on social media. It goes somewhere else.
Anonymous thoughts about social media posted here are from people who named what it's actually doing. Without having to manage the irony of posting it somewhere that makes the problem worse.