Education is an important developmental skill that is acquired from childhood to young adulthood. Emotional education, on the contrary, is not acquired through systemic learning. It is developed through introspection, meeting strangers, making friends, sharing vulnerabilities, and understanding the uniqueness, which includes both strengths and weaknesses, of oneself among others. This is a very natural process in human behaviour and sentience. 

What is also natural is human greed. Modern times have seen a rise in superficial, fast-paced communication with digital proximity but vast emotional aloofness. Emotions here not only imply anger and sadness but the collective feeling of belonging and sharing the commonplace events of life. Psychological counseling has sprung up as a means of fostering capitalistic greed by emotional promiscuity. However, if only people had tine for their kith and kin, such promiscuity would go obsolete. It might still have utility for the tormented souls with extremely hard experiences. But, that cannot be scaled to everyone, rather anyone, who struggles at some point in their life. Emotional education comes only from excruciating introspection coupled with significant help from the right friends or family.

Social media is doing much more than depriving rich social connections ; they are feeding off people’s miseries. This begs the question, despite the ethics, is this who we choose to be as humans?