As social media infiltrates all aspects of our lives, fatigue was always inevitable; from the uptake of anonymous platforms like Secret to celebrities like Lena Dunham handing the reigns of their accounts over to their staff. Will regular people soon start deserting these digital spaces too?

The addictiveness of social media is no secret; likes create endorphin spikes, while a casual comment can change the course of your whole day. By striking these apps from its data allowances, a new service called Voxi from Vodafone caters to Gen Z’s desire to compulsively check their feeds.

The all-consuming popularity of mobile platforms like Instagram and Snapchat among teens hints that the World Wide Web may be in fast decline. In an effort to connect with these app-happy Gen Zers, media brand Obsessee is ditching the dot-com and publishing directly to social channels.

At some point, most people will have found themselves looking through someone's Instagram feed without commenting or engaging with it. Canvas8 spoke with Ruoxu Wang, Fan Yang and Michel M. Haigh, authors of ‘Let me take a selfie’, to understand how lurking affects our self-esteem.