The Struggle to Make Social Connections

On social media, it's not like we're all sitting together having these deep conversations that you would with people in real life. It becomes is really just a chase for dopamine and the actual content that we are using to justify why we're there is really relegated to a corner. One of the ways that we create intimacy with other people is to feel the same emotion at the same time that they're feeling it. And now on social media, you can have that experience, not just with one other human being or even a small handful. Now you're having it with millions of human beings, so the potency of that experience is very, very intense.