'This status symbol, this ultimate seal of journalist approval, this thing I’d bored people with in the pub, this brag I’d even, shamefully, once put on my dating profiles, was now a millstone around my neck.' ✍️ RossMcCaff writes for MetroOpinion
This status symbol, this ultimate seal of journalist approval, this thing I’d bored people with in the pub, this brag I’d even, shamefully, once put on my dating profiles, was now a millstone around my neck.Of course verified status matters to me – but verified status matters full stop
Obviously, I would say that, and I don’t deny it – I have a personal and professional stake in the future of the app. So of course verified status matters to me. But verified status matters full stop. It wasn’t perfect, and there were plenty of undeserving or bizarre people who found themselves blessed with the blue tick.
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