The pressing anxiety to keep up with our feeds and accounts is real, and we become exhausted and overstimulated even when we objectify our “friends” and “followers” as we scroll through. We swipe through our feeds as if paging swiftly through a retail catalog or supermarket circular. In an effort to protect ourselves from feeling too much and feeling overly exposed to too much, it is understandable that we adopt a blasé attitude and become muted.
