“Being famous on Instagram is like being rich on monopoly.”Unknown

Two years ago Instagram tested hiding likes on its user’s posts. The move was met with mixed reaction and ultimately Facebook, (who owns Instagram), decided not to do a platform-wide rollout.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

~Lord Acton

I’ve had chills these past few weeks watching Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon playing God about which businesses can play on their platforms.

Interestingly, all these platforms were happy to receive the millions of dollars in political party advertising. Yet now that the spend-fest is over, they can delete a social media empire that has millions of followers and took millions of dollars to build in just a nanosecond.

Poof.

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was fourteen years old, the head of the math department (who also happened to be my Mother’s best friend and the deputy vice-principal of my school), took my Mom aside and told her that I was going to fail high school math.

Admittedly it was true that math was my least favorite subject. It was also true that my otherwise …