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It feels like social media fakeness is seeping through into real life more and more. and every one is working harder on perfecting their façade ?

what do you think ?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Capitalism. It's not fake, it's just a commodity, now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meh, social media has been fake for years. To be sure, recent increases in advertising enabled the whole "influencer" activity to become profitable and thus capitalistic, but everyone online has been faking their social media presence since Myspace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.