Social media has brought all of us into extremely close desirous proximity to one another. It is the world of what Girard calls “internal mediation” — the people who are models of desire for us are “inside” or “internal” to our own worlds because we can talk to them, engage with them, and most importantly compete with them. This is why social media is an engine of mimetic desire.Social media relies on people imitating other people: quoting, retweeting, reacting. It encourages mimesis even in its form: the prescriptive, restrictive design of social media profiles causes a crisis of sameness. How has social media changed your socialization behavior ?

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