The Necessary Rejection of Social Media

Shem Doupe
24 min readMay 13, 2021

Introduction

In 2016, my wife (then fiancée), Taylor, and I sat patiently in a restaurant in downtown Syracuse while we waited for our waitress to swing by and take our orders. Taylor sat across from me asking a series of questions that went by me completely unnoticed. My eyes and my consciousness were elsewhere; buried deep in my Facebook feed.

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