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>people, especially the youth, are increasingly becoming what they post
I can tell you for once, that I sure have weird tendency to soak up traits of writing/conversation style of people that I talk with for extended periods of time. Sometimes just small quirks, but sometimes as much as even whole sentence structure and word order, or punctuation. I don't know if this is bad, or good. not having a one concrete writing style myself propably also contributes
Recency effect at its finest.

>people, especially the youth, are increasingly becoming what they post
>people with various interests become reduced to just regurgitating the lastest fad or oppinion on social media
And it's all tied with the disappearance of pseudonymity and anonymity. People are all about "selling yourself" to the public, basically a PR. And so, they are watched. Every action sticks to their name. So posting what will please the crowd is the surest way to kill two birds with one stone: "sell oneself", aka make oneself appear in the good light from the standpoint of those who participate, not me, naturally, and get noticed by a bigger group, making this all more effective.
I'm very glad I managed to not get involved in all that at all.
Chans, especially the slower or smaller ones provide much greater straightforwardness, and I'd wager such threads as this (threads! not DMs or anything like that, open threads! Everybody can read what we have posted here, without any of us ever knowing about it, and while it may be categorised as some form of exhibitionism although I'm not saying all this because of it serving a role of enjoyment or fulfilment, so maybe not quite exhibitionism, but everybody is free to think whatever they want, and that's the whole point, I think it also conveys a message) rarely happen on the so called social media.

Also, the cocooning. Although I'm also part of the problem in this case.