Ummm....food for thought !
We crave for acknowledgement and recognition.
It could be the smallest of things that might not even matter.
We try different available platforms to try and get the recognition. Recognition/Acknowledgement can be easily measured in terms of number of likes we get, the comments we get, the retweets we get, views we generate, stashes we get, etc.
Social media and such platforms provide us with knowledge but at the same time snatch away the purity of the knowledge.
No matter how much of a true relevance we have, if it isn't appealing to the masses it would be recognised.
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