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by ikeyany 3304 days ago
That requires self control and a resilience to peer pressure, things we are encouraged to devalue for the sake of "followers".
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FWIW, I've used Facebook for I think 11 years now and I've never once seen anyone refer to or even remotely care about friend count.
It's not necessarily the number of followers people obsess over, it's their validation.