Sometimes, to know how to use a new technology well, you need to go back to an analogue.

A hundred years ago, walking into a conversation and alternately bragging and venting was considered unhealthy, for good reasons. You could call this "pushed" information (it wasn't requested).

Instead, people communicated with "pulled" information - information in response to questions. Conversation was people asking questions, responding, then returning serve with a question.

We still kind of do that, but I notice that with my friends, conversation is more a series of blurted brags and complaints with responses, rather than questions. I suspect we've been trained by broadcast social media posting to do that. It works OK as long as it's mutual ("you tell me things, and I tell you things").

I wonder though, if a form of social media culture that's structured around questions/answers and conversations rather than vanity posts would be perhaps healthier ...?