# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DW65NsdjASJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62945225-michigandaily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-09T18:01:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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#Statement: My mom always says that I am the most informed person she has ever met and that I always seem to know everything about every current event. I don’t want to disappoint her, but I don’t know anything about current events. I might know information, but it isn’t my information. It’s social media. I haven’t actually learned new information, but rather, I have learned how to learn information. It’s an easy skill to acquire information about everything when I, and everyone else, have access to it, unfettered at all times. And the thing about it is that it never ends; there is always more information. And as much as I try not to indulge, driving up both my content intake and screen time helps me maintain my sanity. 

There is no bigger example of this, for me, than last June, during the New York City mayoral primary race. After a few depressing months of President Donald Trump’s second administration, I had long been looking to Zohran Mamdani as a beacon of hope. I had needed him to win, and information surrounding the primary was my way of controlling the situation. Day after day, I would consume coverage on the race just to make sure that I had a grasp on the situation, internalizing every bit of good news and dismissing all of the bad news. After all, hearing the bad news made me fall further out of control, which social media algorithms knew. Eventually, a day before the race, a released poll showed Mamdani in the lead. I remember this moment in particular because I was taking my routine de-stressing walk in Nichols Arboretum in the afternoon. I had even made a special effort to not listen to any music or podcast during my walk to truly disconnect from my phone. But the allure of the information waiting for me was too much, and my algorithms were all too eager to show me what I wanted to see.

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