This is a bit like saying "Money is only as important as you make it". They are all inter-subjective games, you can treat it as unimportant until somebody you treat as important treats it as important, and then it's game over (hehe).
To quote a meme, "We live in a society". This is at once an ironic shitpost and one of the most tragic facts about the human condition.
If you are forced to treat your social media metrics as the center of your life because your friends say that you have to, then I submit that the issue is your choice of friends.
To quote a meme, "We live in a society". This is at once an ironic shitpost and one of the most tragic facts about the human condition.