Social Media as a Status Game

What it is

In The Status Game, Will Storr argues that social media is human status play moved online, with success, virtue and dominance games all present, and that technologists have tuned the rules to make the play competitive.

In effect

The article on maxxing uses the argument to explain why a habit that carries a measurable score can enter a success game.

What it does not say

It is an argument from a trade book and not a measured effect. It does not say that all use of social media is status play.

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