Forums are a place where people could express their thoughts and feelings in detail and engage in conversation with others focusing on not only getting their point across but also listening to that of other people.
Social media allows people to voice their opinion no matter how ridiculous in 140 characters for the world to digest. Who needs a conversation when you can just regurgitate all over the internet and even have celebs engage with you 1 on 1. Now its possible to evaluate the worthiness of someone's point simply by liking it, re-tweeting it or seeing how much green there is next to a video. We live in a society that likes to quantify the human experience.
The question is not ....are you happy?
Its how happy are you?
how happy do you look?
Social media lets us quantify our experience by allowing other people to rate our experiences.
I love my new suit, let me put a picture on facebook and see how many likes it gets. Wow....15 people like that picture of me....now I feel better about myself and this suit. Now I feel more valued amongst my peers.
Wow I like person X and his new suit, 15 people liked it, I wonder where I could get a suit like that. I wonder where he is going in a suit like that....Ohhh it says on facebook he is going to #London, iv always wanted to go there.....person X always does cool stuff. I wish I was more like person X.
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