You could socialize with people face to face, or you can be a neurotic dipshit who talks to a screen all day through your fingers. That doesn’t make you cool, it’s makes you socially incompetent.

If a platform’s most efficient layer of abstraction is text, what are you doing with your public friends lists and stupid pictures you beg people to care about? You’re pushing “like” buttons all day. You’re being trained by the creators of social media to be more like them. Do you really think they’re good examples of human beings?