[paretoer]

As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about how you would lose more by stopping.

An alcoholic who can't stop going to the bar because they will lose their drinking buddies is not a dollar auction.

[biorach]

It's not a rationalisation, and you're missing the point.

[monkpit]

Your comment has the exact same message if you remove the virtue signaling “As someone who doesn't use social media”.