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Usually the argument pro-digital social networks is that it's just the same as before: the same happened to radio, TV, etc. But is it really the same? Did we ev

Usually the argument pro-digital social networks is that it's just the same as before: the same happened to radio, TV, etc. But is it really the same? Did we ever had such an immediate, quantified, ubiquitous, and global feedback mechanism that kept us constantly aware (and self-conscious) of every single thing we say or do? Is it really natural to micro-manage your life based on the amount of likes you are going to get from people who are (more often than not) not even a part of your life? They say that a metric stops being useful when it becomes the goal, and I feel like we reached the ultimate instance of that problem.

helloworld11 4y ago
Those who want (and wanted) to did. There are however still many people who not only live their lives as they please but also say and display whatever silliness or ugliness they like on social networks, craving the attention perhaps but also gloating in the offense they cause. Others just don't care either way. The feedback mechanism may be there now like never before in history, but the human responses to feedback are largely the same they've been in many other times or places.