i don't why, but when reading this i was just thinking humans have always been like this, we just a had facades to hide our true feelings... the internet simply removes those facades and you see what people really think and feel when they are truly honest.... sad, humanity has not progressed much over thousands of years... yeah, maybe technologically wise, but not human nature....
This is untrue
It was not always like this at all, there was not ever in human history such stimuli of dopamine.
This entire thing is not just a behavioral one or sociological, but a neurological & biochemical one as well.
People want likes, and people get likes at a scale that was never possibly before.
Someone can have 10M followers now, how can you say it was always like that? It was never like that.
Someone posts something on social media one night, and the next morning upon waking up they immediately check for updates(likes, comments, saves, reshares..check the reshares etc..).
Social media has changed our entire daily routine.
IG has made careers and bought mansions.
Social media affects how people buy.
Our phone is a 3rd arm right now and almost has it's own section of tissue matter in the brain.
It changed our entire behavior and has had a huge impact on the economy.
This is not something that can simply be trivialized.
There is a massive difference in scale now, and that has changed the whole ballgame.
Also it's proven that people will say something on social media that they often don't even believe, but they'll say it for likes.
Inclusion is a hella of a drug, but social media just needs tweets and IG posts, very little contribution and a biochemical return.