This is interesting to me. I've been off socials for quite a while, but every now and again, I'm reminded, in the real world, how normalized these have become as communication platforms.

I've always seen them as marketing platforms, great for people like yourself to promote their creation/curation. It gives you a captive audience.

The part that bothered me most was the feeling of being caught in between the performer and consumer, whereas I just wanted to be there to keep in touch. With other media (movies, television, print) audience is audience. On socials, between the trolls, influencers and artists, I never felt quite sure of what I was. With the smashing together of audio-visual media, instant messaging and "the algorithm," I feel the dazzling, numbing effect left me most the time vulnerable dooomscrolling.