Likes Are Not Evidence
Costless goodness is just content
Social media rewards the appearance of goodness more than actual goodness.
In real life, being decent costs something, time, money, patience, pride, inconvenience.
Online, you can post a quote about forgiveness, kindness, or “God sees everything” in ten seconds and get likes, respect, and the feeling of being a good person… without having to live any of it.
So many people use social media as a stage.
They perform the version of themselves they wish they were, or want others to believe they are. The more public the platform, the stronger the pressure to look moral, wise, spiritual, or healed.
It’s not always pure hypocrisy. Sometimes it’s aspiration, guilt, image management, or some mix of those. When we do see a contradiction between the post and the person, we still can’t always know which it is.
And none of us is completely outside of this.
Judging someone else’s performance online can become its own kind of performance too.
The platform rewards the post.
The good someone does that never becomes content gets no likes, no praise, no public reward.
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Annam M Gordon
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