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Social Media As Efficient Status Market
- The podcast frames social apps as efficient ways to seek status among peers.
- Social media replaces adult status signals (car, job) for teens and young adults.
Snapchat Streaks And Best Friends
- People kept Snapchat streaks of hundreds by efficiently sending snaps daily.
- The public 'best friends' feature became a status game about who fancies whom.
Status Predicts Wellbeing
- Psych research calls status a core human motive distinct from belonging or wealth.
- Higher social status predicts subjective wellbeing and mental and physical health.