> From being asked to review every product you buy to believing that every tweet or Instagram image warrants likes or comments or follows, social media produced

> From being asked to review every product you buy to believing that every tweet or Instagram image warrants likes or comments or follows, social media produced a positively unhinged, sociopathic rendition of human sociality. This actually reminds me of a larger issue than social media. I personally don't have accounts on any of these services. Hacker News is the closest, and it's a pure pull model where very little of the content is user-generated and you can't follow individual users. But I also live in a major US metro downtown and I walk all over the place, frequently. Often several hours a day. And even there, people are screaming for my attention. Mostly, these are homeless pandhandlers, but also sometimes religious nuts, political signature campaigns, people with storefronts trying to get you to come in, and fundraisers for charities. At one point when I first moved here, I'd actually respond to some of these people, but I just can't do it any more. At a certain level, there are so many people asking for money that, no matter how much each might individually deserve it and I can afford to help them, I'd go broke helping everyone, and have no way to triage when I have no idea who is going to come next and what their story will be. Even more than that, though, the sheer amount of time it takes just to stop and listen to each pitch becomes overwhelming when you add it all up. An hour long walk turns into three hours, with two of them spent not walking at all. Social media seems like people who don't leave the comfort of the nice walls of the house and car still managing to experience this same thing anyway by subjecting themselves to the interjections and interruptions of everyone else in the world, somehow convinced that whatever tiny nuggets of value they find every once in a while are worth it.