It’s been something of a strange year for social media, sort of akin to watching a human make the shift from adorable to child to respectable adult.
As children, we are cute and novel enough to the people around us that they forgive us our foibles. As adults, we (usually) bring actual skills to the table, which makes up for the fact that we are no longer quite so cute as we used to be when we couldn’t say the letter “R” and our favorite color was Elmo.