[jcpham2]

There's also this new-fangled social media anxiety pressure whereby most people only share and put out the AMAZING GAINS and HOW AWESOME their lives are.

I feel like social media ups the ante on a lot of borderline or negative human traits because instead of CONNECTING us it's actually pushing us further apart.

It's a tangential thought I know but the fact that there exist people bragging/boasting/ saying LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK HOW EASY IT IS - this creates a pretty unhealthy feedback loop and like you said, there's no value there.

I have smaller kids and I fear for their mental well being because of the pressures of the internet and how it's bleeding into reality in weird new ways that aren't exactly healthy.