InstantGratification: Becoming A Victim to The Algorithm
5 min readMay 26, 2021
My complicated relationship with social media goes back to my early teenage years. I originally wanted nothing to do with social media at all. I knew about MySpace and FaceBook, but I had no interest in joining those sites. After a little bit of peer pressure and a growing fear of missing out, I eventually gave in to the hype. I used social media the way you would expect an angsty teenager to…