Human photography essay

Social Media Treadmill

We talk much about the “hedonic” treadmill (a life in which we are just trying to maximize our base sensual pleasures). Why don’t we ever talk about the social media treadmill — in which we just keep producing things and uploading things to get more likes and followers and social media fame, towards what end?

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.