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I have a strong feeling that you were well past the age where social media could have had a strong influence on your psychological development when you had enco

I have a strong feeling that you were well past the age where social media could have had a strong influence on your psychological development when you had encountered social media for the first time. I am not saying there are no good things to social media, but knowing people, the dark patterns emerge much stronger than the positive ones.

RandallBrown 8y ago
It's possible. I was 17 when I got Facebook, so older than most kids now, but not exactly a fully formed adult. Interestingly, in middle school, my friends and I sort of built our own social network. We all made websites on "Expage" and would link them to each other. It seemed like everyone in the school was doing it and I remember being pretty happy when a girl I liked gave me a shoutout on her website. I feel like we all learned a lot from that experience because inevitably, there was plenty of drama and hurt feelings. That's a big part of what got me into software development in the first place.