On social media, instead of having experiences with your friends—which will bring you closer in the moment and give you shared memories to look back on and treasure—you can only tell them (or post photos) about your own experiences. This is less satisfying than having experiences together and encourages comparison (is your life as fun as your friends’ lives?) instead of camaraderie. It also encourages us to interrupt our experiences so that we can take photographs to post to social media. We end up performing our lives instead of living them.
