Status Games and the Future of Social Networks

There seem to be more and more services popping up that let you generate fake vacation pictures with AI, as covered by The Verge here . At first I thought, "why would anyone want to use this?" But then when I saw Adam Mosseri's end-of-year thoughts about Instagram (also summarized by PetaPixel ), it made sense to me. In this post, I want to go through the things I agree with Adam about, and one…