nearly a thousand people (none of which, as far as I can tell, I had even a loose connection with) mashing like on my post was more of an unsettling experience than it was the digital gratification than I would have expected. It got me thinking about how easy social platforms make it to write, respond, like, and share—and, perhaps for the first time, wondering if it’s too easy.
This especially came through in some of the replies and quote posts I got, which were pretty superficial critiques of Musk […] felt like it was devolving into a game of “here are the usual jokes that we trot out against Musk every time” rather than anything loosely substantive or personal.