Is Your Social Media Consumption Improving You?
Influencers are not in it to make you a better person. That requires humility, of which they have little.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. You’re likely to never be as rich, beautiful, powerful, or famous as the rich, beautiful, powerful, and famous people you see on social media (or movies or television). They are that way because they are outliers in the normal distribution of their characteristics. This doesn’t mean you don’t strive for those things, but you should be ready to accept your limitations.
Unfortunately, most social media influencers do not give you great tips on humility because they don’t need it. It is probably a personal characteristic they lost when they gained notoriety. After all, why practice humility when people worship you?
Yes, yes, people are allowed to behave as they want, so long as they do not hurt others. But are the self-aggrandizing influencers and celebrities out there doing you any favors in getting you to follow, worship, and subsidize them? Well, the evidence indicates there are harms coming from the pressures we feel when we try to keep…
