Social Media Reflections
Sam discusses the dissonance between online personas and real-life behavior, highlighting how social media can distort perceptions of normalcy. He likens Twitter interactions to road rage, where individuals display extreme behaviors they would never exhibit face-to-face. Both he and Lex express concern over witnessing admired friends becoming uncharacteristically harsh online, suggesting that the platform itself may be to blame for these transformations.In this clip
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