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When successful adults need validation for mundane moments

I posted a photo of my breakfast and spent the next hour refreshing to see if anyone liked it and I am a 34-year-old lawyer

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional competence in the real world cannot fill the bottomless well of approval-seeking that social media has opened within us.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media — psychological effects?”

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