Social media marks a new era in the intensity, density, and pervasiveness of social comparison processes, especially for the youngest among us, who are "almost constantly online" at a time of life when one's own identity, voice, and moral agency are a work in progress. In fact, the psychological tsunami of social comparison triggered by the social media experience is considered unprecedented.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1472