I spent over 40 hours on my phone last week. Impassive and dispassionate, dead-eyed scrolling. A selfie here, a trauma-based meme there, but mainly just lurking like a true internet goblin, needing something to distract me from the humdrum mundanity of modern life.
The dialogue around our obsession with social media has grown over the past few years – the all-encompassing metaverse hanging heavy on our minds. There have been many studies attempting to quantify the mental health impacts. Much has been written about the splintering of our ‘real’ and ‘ideal’ selves. Online, these binaries blur. Not only because social media
