Social media is not a mirror of society. When I go and spend time with friends or family, I’m doing it fairly unrestrained and of my own will. Sitting around a

Social media is not a mirror of society. When I go and spend time with friends or family, I’m doing it fairly unrestrained and of my own will. Sitting around a dinner table chatting about whatever only involves the people at the dinner table. Social media takes this idea and tries to move it into a browser seemingly innocuously, but adds algorithms and manipulations all with an end goal of selling attention to advertisers and personal information to marketing companies. It may feel like it’s just the real world society except online, but every little interaction is so drastically transformed, you’re left with something completely different.