I'm over 35 and I don't think things were "better" before social media, but I do think there are aspects that aren't improving with being digitized/VR'd/monetiz

I'm over 35 and I don't think things were "better" before social media, but I do think there are aspects that aren't improving with being digitized/VR'd/monetized. And they are things that I suspect people will 'rediscover' over time, without the need to make it part of their personal branding or PR self-promotion campaign. I think the youth angle has some validity, but it also misses something else. I realized in my late 20s that I was already making more nuanced analysis of 'life' for myself than I did a few years prior. "Experience" isn't an end all/be all, but it does carry some occasionally useful benefits, that if you foster can only improve with age. I like hanging out with people my own age (40s) but also younger and older, because I get different useful/interesting things from doing so, and I incorporate it into the lens I use to make a go of life. THAT only comes from age and experience by and large. Social media is tooling, which can (and sadly is) leveraged in any number of ways (regardless of age group)...all of which we as a society have allowed. We need to make choices about whether that should proceed as is, or if changes are required.