100% agreed with this, with a few more items to add to the list:
3. The people you hear about most are heard about most because they're newsworthy in some way. That tends to mean someone who's extraordinary good at something, or at least has the marketing skill to make it seem that way.
They'll also be the types who'll get a lot of attention on social media, since people are more likely to share extraordinary stories than ordinary ones.
So you get an unrealistic picture, simply because you're seeing all the outliers.
4. People who aren't very good at something tend not to share that, whereas those who do will share it. If you're a fitness buff who can bench press 400 lbs, you're the type of person most likely to post to a fitness subreddit, or Discord server, or on relevant hashtags on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. The many others who are out of shape? Not so much.
Either way, it all leads to a situation where success/skill is drastically overrepresented online compared to its commonness in the population as a whole.
Isn’t this true for everything? If anything is normal, which is most of the times, it is not worth posting as it is common and won’t generate the buzz. So, only the extremes get posted and make everyone feel either good or bad and not just content. Maybe there needs to be a place where people can just post normal everyday stuff that speaks to everyone and neither provokes good nor bad feelings - just a feeling of content.
3. The people you hear about most are heard about most because they're newsworthy in some way. That tends to mean someone who's extraordinary good at something, or at least has the marketing skill to make it seem that way.
They'll also be the types who'll get a lot of attention on social media, since people are more likely to share extraordinary stories than ordinary ones.
So you get an unrealistic picture, simply because you're seeing all the outliers.
4. People who aren't very good at something tend not to share that, whereas those who do will share it. If you're a fitness buff who can bench press 400 lbs, you're the type of person most likely to post to a fitness subreddit, or Discord server, or on relevant hashtags on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. The many others who are out of shape? Not so much.
Either way, it all leads to a situation where success/skill is drastically overrepresented online compared to its commonness in the population as a whole.