Social media epiphanies make for a terrible education

I'm 26 years old and I grew up addicted to tech sphere social media. I learned all kinds of things; C is better than Java because it's closer to the hardware with less abstraction. Modern operating systems are garbage because they are bloated. Web standards are garbage because of Microsoft and Google's shared effort to embrace, extend, and extinguish them, in order to prevent any meaningful competition. Old video game consoles are better because they run bare metal, resulting in significantly lower latency. I'm 26, and only this year did I learn to make a functional for() loop. All my experience on tech social media taught me was how to have a lot of opinions, and nothing to show for them. Social media will always show you these "life changing epiphanies", these tidbits of information that just seem to make sense and explain everything, these scraps of knowledge that make YOU feel like a genius, without actually teaching you anything. These sorts of posts will make you feel good as a reader, they will make you feel like you're advancing, like you're reaching self-actualization, like you're smarter than everyone else who is just missing this crucial detail, so they are the ones that people will smash that like button on. They are the profitable posts, the addictive posts, the posts that leave you wanting more, more, and social media's algorithms will reflect that, boost them, and sometimes show you nothing but them, but they will rarely result in actual self betterment. The amount of time I've spent reading actual reference documents, manuals, and example files is likely less than 1% of the time I've spent reading this sort of tabloid tech news, and yet everything I've actually applied has been from this boring documentation. It is easy to convince yourself that social media can be more than just junk food, but in the vast majority of cases I'm sure it's not. I also have to address the irony of this post. I realize I'm writing this in the style of an epiphany, just like all the other tabloid tech journalism. Maybe I've been trained to write in this style from all my years of reading and interacting with that schlock; maybe I feel like if I don't write in this way, nobody is going to see this, potentially robbing some of what I feel needs to be heard. I guess in that way, the system exists as some sort of vicious cycle; so instead of viewing this post as an epiphany, I'd like you to try to interpret it as a boring design document, nothing more than a useful bit of information among many things to help you advance and create things. Thank you very much for reading, I hope that my words can help at least some of you in some way.