How Social Media Influencing Is Killing Us

As a neglected Gen-Xer, it’s safe to assume that social media was an unreal phenomenon, that couldn’t be realized until decades later. Of course there’s the casual bitterness of how easy it is for Millennials to DM links to online bios containing the goods that will get them hired; when back in the day, it was the tedious curation of query letters that editors didn’t read, and if they did, the generic rejection letters took months to arrive.

There is no doubt that social media was created to transform our existence from #basic to #best with non-stop clicks that lead to likes, strategic reposts, and the ambitious threads of wisdom that make or break reputations depending on who you’re “canceling” or traitorously “not canceling.”

The truth is that you don’t know who you really are until the chaotic landscape of debilitating dysfunction becomes a mandatory haven — that hosts a symphony of defective personalities — challenging aptitude and the level of madness that you’re willing to expel in order to avoid the deactivation of status.

Most of us are celebrating a decade of habitual tweeting, and while it’s hard to believe that it’s been that long, it’s even scarier to observe how much things have changed for the worse.

At first, it was magical to have access to the tools of engagement that made the…