Why does it seem so crazy that even when people want to seek a life away from the internet, they still seek that same external validation from it?

It's like living isn't possible if it's not being announced at all times. You go out to eat, gotta take pictures for "the gram" but it's okay because you're not gonna post them then and there, you'll wait for later.

Maybe it's just me but I remember as a kid the only time we told people about ourselves at school was during show and tell or after a school break when the teacher would have us write and read aloud an essay about what we did over it.

Like even if people want to be offline, their minds are still warped by the idea of having followers and likes, that people still feel like life is a performance, and that everything they do is somehow being judged when in reality no one really cares if you're reading a book on a bench while sipping coffee. Are they expecting someone to just pop up and debate them about the book or something or call them out for being "performative"?