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Why social media creates artificial life timelines

I am 29 and all my social media is people getting engaged and having babies and buying houses and I feel like I missed some memo about when these things were supposed to happen.

Laozi
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital curation creates false urgency around life milestones by amplifying selective presentations of others' timing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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