Instagram and Snapchat = the new lover?

As much as I agree with you that social media now, especially with adolescents, is basically a popular-meter but I disagree on how you say that the connecting aspect of these platforms is only a front, that again it is all about the likes and retweets. As someone who has lived in numerous places throughout the world and thus have had to leave friends and make new ones every couple years I can assure you that these platforms are fantastic for keeping in touch with old friends that now live in different continents. If these applications didn't exists there would be no way at all for me to know how they were doing and what they are up to and now thanks to this these people do not disappear totally from my life.