Are "Likes" on social media ruining our youths generation on interpreting what success is?

I mean let’s face it. There are a lot of people with low self-esteem and the positive ones seem to get the most likes.

My question is sort of abstract in thought. I’m trying to go along the lines of the OP but what I’m asking is a lot deeper than I can translate.

Maybe I mean to say, is it a good idea to tell our kids that “Likes” on social media shouldn’t be relevant to how they see themselves amongst their peers?

I’m not sure what I’m getting at. I guess I feel that our youth feels the need to “want” “likes” vs them putting out genuine content for themselves.

Maybe this is making more sense the more I write…

Is our youths generation “unauthentic” is probably what I’m getting at. Are they a bunch of phonies? Or are they just absorbed in “trying” to get attention.

In my day, you had your shot to be the big cheese in high school. Then everyone went to college, or got a real job, and they’d branch into smaller groups.

Now it seems with social media there’s this one porridge of an on going continuous high school, where everyone wants to be relevant.

How do you view social media? (And please don’t say you don’t participate in any social media, this QandA touches base on some aspects of social media [maybe more or less hidden identity and respectful of course!])