Yeah that's a tough one... we're social creatures and part of that is the craving for validation & attention. Social media can offer that to an extent, but it's also heavily geared towards glorifying the exterior, the successes, the celebrations. And it is ripe for exaggerations, for portraying and magnifying only the bright side. It's dangerously easy to present yourself as someone who you're not. On the other hand, someone battling with their demons? Going through the dark night of the soul? Trying to work through their existential doubts and angst? Most don't want to see that or even think about that, so that gets glossed over, or even discouraged. Now I'm not entirely sure if the latter is due to how social media works as a concept or, I would rather think that it's due to a general unwillingness of society at large to take radical responsibility for themselves, which includes accepting and working with the dark side, the shadow. I think it's the lack of "strength of the person's spirit," as Nietzsche put it. BTW, I was looking at some of your latest notes and saw this one: Which is funny cause I wrote a short piece on this exact topic a couple of years ago :) Maybe it's a sign that I should finally put it out there.