How Netflix’s “The Great Hack” Proves How Much Worse It Will Get

Mild spoilers

It’s been about a decade now since most of us have been active on social media, and in that time the highs and lows that come with the vast exposure of what used to be private matters has essentially converted users into unrecognizable versions of ourselves.

Nothing is off limits anymore, and even the tragic and very intimate life events that were reserved for personal moments with loved ones, have now become uploaded clips that capture real-time miscarriages and other triggering content that are no longer hidden to reserve sanity.

Relationship statuses are also vulnerable to the bug of over-sharing, as silly lies are revealed through the urgency to share the evidence of why hashtags were invented, and how the unhealthy competitiveness of proving why living your #bestlife should be the sport that has to be conquered, reduces grown adults to pathetic guinea pigs for the never-ending experiment.

I have always fostered a rather distant relationship with technology that just never grew past the toddler stage.

Facebook was the first attempt at functioning in a space that hosted a crowded field of past and present “friends,” and the prospect seemed excitingly progressive, especially when you could revive buried connections…