Is society becoming more fake ? (lemmy.world)

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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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[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I think social media has the ability to make things impossible to ignore, things that previously people were able to ignore.

Things such as police brutality, mass shootings, for instance, probably were just as common back then as it is now. But now we're paying attention to it. I think it's the same thing here. People have always had a different public and personal life. It would be incredibly odd if someone didn't. But social media is making people pay attention to the fact that there's some people whose private lives are ugly, but who try to project a perfect public life anyways.

[-] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think out all of the answers, this one is one of the main reasons why people might feel more fake nowadays than before.

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