One becomes so caught up in the fear of becoming obsolete and the dopamine-fueled satisfaction of staring into a screen that we fail to make simple evaluations

One becomes so caught up in the fear of becoming obsolete and the dopamine-fueled satisfaction of staring into a screen that we fail to make simple evaluations that are right in front of us. Is a thumbs up emoji posted by someone with whom you shook hands at a conference six months ago while he sits on the toilet going to give you any real value or are you just succumbing to social pressure? In the thousands of hours that users sink into social media in a year one could instead read, learn to code, learn an instrument or learn anything at all. Who is more interesting, a biologist who plays the mandolin and is semi-fluent in a second language or a biologist with lots of Twitter followers?