The myth of authenticity

Social media, an ecosystem built on mutual transactions, was never fertile soil to harvest the elusive “A” word.

Yesterday, Vox published an essay by Rebecca Jennings on the reckoning she’s noticed on Instagram:

Instagram has a way of flattening lived experiences so that my best years look exactly like my bad ones, and that everything seems pretty good, all the time, for everyone. This, obviously, is not how life works for most people, and ever since Instagram has …