sycasey said:
These tech CEOs like Musk and Zuckerberg are cut from the same cloth: nerds who are confused as to why the same skills that brought them success in business and technology can't make people like them. Probably not an accident that they also run our "social" media companies.
Musk's repeated posting is quite telling.
Just like how there are a couple of posters here that seek the same social "validation" posting 30x a day.
Elon Just Couldn't Stop Posting About Trump And Experts Say It's Very RevealingStanford University psychiatrist
Dr. Anna Lembke said she doesn't know what is going through Musk's head, but frequent posters in general typically do so out of a desire for social validation, which can be even more potent to receive from people you don't know.
Lembke said social validation from millions of strangers online can be "much more potent and therefore more reinforcing than the social validation we might get from people in our real life, because of the emotional complexity of real-life relationships where there's much more give and take, and we have to listen."
"And that's not necessarily true on social media, where we can just delete or block somebody or go somewhere else to get the reinforcement we're looking for," she continued.
Experts say one other reason for posting so much could be to control narratives against you. A New York Times report alleges that tensions between Trump and Musk had been simmering for months, but the breakup got accelerated after Musk felt "
humiliated" when Trump got rid of Musk's preferred pick for head of NASA.
"[Musk] wants to be validated. This was not the way it was supposed to go. He was supposed to save the country from all kinds of things. And he was the only guy who could do it," suggested
Tracy Ross, a couples therapist, about what Musk might be seeking with his frequent posts. "Think of the specialness of that, and then to lose that, he's got to feel gutted."
