Social Media Cannot Bear the Weight of Friendship

While we long for intimacy, we are terrified at the prospect of being deeply known.

I don’t know about you, but when I think about what social media was originally designed to accomplish, I think of the earliest days of Facebook connecting people to old high school friends, former lovers, or distant family members. The purpose of social media, it seemed at least for a little while, was to connect people (often who already knew each oth…