Facebook’s praise culture

Witnessing the super applause at play, thunderous clapping elevating average value at a triumphant pedestal; showering with petals the illusion of super achievement.

 
Thinking how deeply damaging this is for a cultural field, an academic project. Cheers from a variety of angles working in tandem to blanket weak assumptions, blind spots, limitations. The weight of interests lowering expectations, compromising critical reflection, crashing the bar low. A ritual massacre hailed as a triumph in fb’s colosseum…