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Social media should be, and used to be, a tool to make real life easier, not replace it. We’re spending all this time indulging voyeurism and inventing people to be mad at and then looking up at the real world and asking who let it all go to shit.
“Perhaps, then, that Instagram shot or confessional tweet isn’t always meant to evoke some mythical, pretend version of ourselves,” he surmised, “but instead seeks to invoke the imagined perfect audience—the non-existent people who will see us exactly as we want to be seen.” “We are not curating an ideal self,” Alang added, “but rather, an ideal Ot... See more
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
Social media has created a world where everything looks perfect—fitness routines, diets, relationships, and even parenting. People post their morning workouts, their sauna and cold plunge sessions, and their perfectly prepared meals, making it seem like they live an ideal life. But the truth is, what we see is a carefully edited highlight reel, not... See more
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