I think an abundance of people are going online every day and finding someone they feel superior to

The effects of the internet on our self-esteem are documented by scientists and debated in parliaments.

I think an abundance of people are going online every single day and finding someone they feel superior to.

Many people go on to turn these thoughts into posts, accumulating hundreds of thousands of likes and bolstering their own egos.

Then someone dies and posts are quietly deleted.

I don’t actually think the internet is turning us into judgemental, sneering people, but rather that it is a playground for our worst impulses.

When you can plug yourself into an ego machine every day , you spend less time scrutinising yourself.

Psychologists have long theorised that superiority complexes are defence mechanisms caused by feelings of inferiority.