>Like, why write this blog at all if you aren’t after the validation? Social Media, especially large ones like FB / TW / IG / SC etc are mass aggregators. A b

>Like, why write this blog at all if you aren’t after the validation? Social Media, especially large ones like FB / TW / IG / SC etc are mass aggregators. A blog is a publishing platform. Like an article in a web page or a news article. There is a lot of difference. You can't build echo chambers around blogs. (You can, if you try hard enough, but you can also do that in the real life) Social Media makes is buttery smooth to slide into well walled echo chambers. Personally, I also think they have fueled the rise of crass materialism and wealth worship to an absurd degree. Having a streaming channel is a legitimate career these days, which just blows my mind. Of course, not all streamers, but many budding ones seem to think that behaving crazy on a channel will make them millionaires and bring them a lot of females to mess with. I can't even imagine what sort of warping this does to a young impressionable mind. There was a time when education and character were seen as must achieve goals, to have a stable life and family. We are raising a generation of poorly motivated, warped world view children, who are supposed to take charge in a decade or so.