You can say the same thing for the self proclaimed foodies who instagrams every meal while the others at the table politely wait for them to finish so they may

You can say the same thing for the self proclaimed foodies who instagrams every meal while the others at the table politely wait for them to finish so they may eat together. By the time they get to it the food is fucking cold, and while they attempt to highlight the flavours they don't realize the moment has passed. The experience, in its entirety, has been destroyed. The issue is not traveling, it's that our generation has made being a narcissist cool. We post a small sampling of our experiences on facebook, twitter, medium, and instagram. But, only the positive ones. We could never risk letting the people of the world know that we are average. Social media has devalued our experiences and the validation/interest of our closest friends, and increased the value of validation and interest of total strangers. Your value is the not the sum total of likes, retweets, karma, and <3's on instagram. I would go so far to say that your perceived value by those who matter is inversely correlated to your likes, retweets, karma and <3's /end rant Oh the irony that I unloaded all this here, on social media...