I suffered from an early version of this when I was one of the top Elite Yelpers in my city about a dozen years ago. I started to notice that anytime I went som

I suffered from an early version of this when I was one of the top Elite Yelpers in my city about a dozen years ago. I started to notice that anytime I went somewhere, I spent much of my time looking for flaws to post about in my reviews instead of enjoying myself. I still notice and mentioned the positive things but for most people, seeing the good is the default when going out. Elevating the flaws that often would have quickly been dismissed otherwise was having a negative impact on my quality of life. Additionally, friends who also started doing reviews were becoming increasingly critical of everything and everyone in their lives, which made me realize I was doing so too. The entire social scene around the local Yelp community was getting increasingly hostile and petty with each other. When I stepped back and looked at it from the outside, it was shocking how much it was changing everyone's personalities. In the end I quit writing reviews for Yelp and exited the community even though much of my social life at that point had become subsumed by it. Luckily I was still at an age where it was easy to rebuild my social life. For many, social media has become their primary social outlet and without it, they don't have anything else to turn to. Even without the pandemic, I suspect that it's more difficult to build an offline social life than it used to be, especially for the young.