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What is it that attracts people to social media? Ever since facebook started it seemed full of people self-promoting which made it look sleazy . Things haven't changed since , it 's just that now it has become normalized to be sleazy. What is it that attracts people to social media?

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Are you sure our more normalized now? The back of magazines and comic books were also full of scams and sleaze when I was a kid. I am 40 and remember people forwarding letters around with a dollar in them for some kind of pyramid scheme.

We remember that because it was the exception

I don't think there was another time in history when people self proclaimed the things you find today in a social media profile , and not getting laughed at

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