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> I meant good as in "hey, that's great for them"

yeah, that's part of education, it's not really what we should feel, because we don't know!

Social media are just suspension of disbelief for the masses, we are looking through the keyhole, it should be obvious that what we're looking at it's a fabrication and nothing is real.

It's like those truth-vs-reality posts about social media pictures.

It's so obvious when you think about it for a moment: we don't believe that the ice cream in the ADs is actually THAT good, why we should believe that self promotional material on social media it's any better?

https://www.demilked.com/instagram-online-picture-lies-truth...

https://www.boredpanda.com/instagram-vs-reality-truth-behind...

> If people truly didn't care, they wouldn't go on social media or read the news.

as I've said before.

They should not care, but if they don't, they're out of the game.

And it hurts to them more than feeling bad.

People have been thaught that if you're not getting any attention, you're nothing.



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