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Liking your own post is the ultimate digital self-high-five

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Giving your own upload a digital thumbs up is essentially the digital equivalent of high-fiving yourself in a crowded room. It requires a spectacular level of unwarranted self-confidence to formally endorse your own heavily filtered visage before anyone else even has the chance to judge it.

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