Are your opinions actually yours?
Lately, I've been wondering whether social media actually changed human nature or simply exposed it.
We like to think of ourselves as independent thinkers, yet most of us spend an incredible amount of energy trying to fit in. We talk about individuality, but disagreement often feels strangely personal, almost like a threat.
Th internet was supposed to connect us and broaden our perspectives. Instead, it often seems to push people into tribes—not because we're evil or irrational, but because belonging has always mattered to us more than we admit.
Maybe Reddit, Twitter, and every other platform aren't creating these behaviors. Maybe they're just revealing something that was always there: our need for approval, our fear of rejection, and the uncomfortable possibility that many of our opinions are shaped by the people around us.
I'm not even sure this is a bad thing. Humans have always learned from groups. But it raises an interesting question:
I'm exhausted...
Are your opinions actually yours, or mostly inherited from the people around you?