Harry Pitts warns that letting social media algorithms define your worth is dangerous. Good numbers feel like divine approval, bad ones deflate you, but neither reflects your actual value. He urges you to stop letting algorithmic feedback measure who you are.
Be careful of distractions. Listen closely. A word that tells you who you are, because every one of us is asking something to tell us who we are, and that's not optional. The question, who am I and am I enough, runs under almost every single thing we do. Both you and I both. But here's where it gets quiet and dangerous for a lot of us. That something, that something that we've been talking to has become— and conversing with has become an algorithm, a feed that shows us numbers, views, likes, comments, followers, and we let those numbers function as a word spoken over us by God himself. If we have a good number, we feel like, ah, something good is happening to me because I have more than 1,000 views. And if we receive a bad number, something bad is happening to me. And if we receive that bad number, Guess what happens? Something inside of us deflates. Lean in. Something inside of us deflates that has nothing to do with actual content that you post online. That's not vanity.
