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That’s a deep question! I think most of us use social media to connect, share, or just escape for a bit even if we don’t always realize it. Sometimes I catch myself scrolling food posts like the Texas Roadhouse menu, just for the comfort of seeing delicious meals. It’s funny how online spaces mix connection, curiosity, and craving all at once. You can also explore this site https://thetexasroadhousemenu.com/
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Great article. Also, enjoyable to think about the subtext of how you must be branding your content creation to be relevant in the substack market, through a knowledge gap between you and the reader on game theory/social status
What this really shows is how social media turns every interaction into performance, competition, and coalition. Three overlapping games most people don’t realize they’re playing. Platforms compress all our roles into one public persona, then reward whatever cuts through the noise. The result is a kind of reality drift as people optimize for relevance instead of connection, and surprise instead of sincerity.
Thoughtful explanation of the dynamics of social media. It helps explain how I often see posters who start out at what seems to be similar spot but then diverge quite radically as they adopt different strategies.