Am0rIn0 wrote: people are still proud of their digital number of virtual followers.

Hey, go easy on these youngsters.
Remember that they have no firewall 'cos they have known nothing but the www.
They are too young to have had an education grounding them in logic, philosophy, mathematics, languages, classical music and literature. Their world is all Netflix gunk, YouTube trash, two-minute spastic 'songs' and jerky insta reels.
They have the attention span of a gnat and the emotional intelligence of a warthog.
For us boomers to expect thoughtful opinions and choices or any form of coherent persona from them, is as anachronistic as wondering why Aristotle didn't get it about evolution, Isaac Newton couldn't invent a drone or Thomas Jefferson didn’t come up with Critical Race Theory.
OK, OK, The Donald is a boomer, exceptions prove the rule.