Which, in turn, always reminds me of W.E.B. Dubois’s notion of a “double consciousness:
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/
(Not, the be clear, that I am in any way comparing the experience of a social network user to that of an oppressed minority, but I think there is something to the idea that social networks also force us develop a kind of double consciousness.)