What's the evolutionary advantage of women desperately needing social validation?

@matrix Its pretty much the only reason a woman would have to interact with a man in the first place. So pretty much the only reason the species exists :)

@freemo I don't mean just from men, that part makes sense. What I don't understand is that they desire validation from other women yet at the same time are competing with them for mates.

@matrix I was just being silly anyway, I didnt mean that, it just made me laugh.

But if we are being serious I find men need validation too just in very different ways.

@freemo Maybe studying a large sample of people would prove me wrong, but from my personal observations I think that men don't care that much about validation from men, but care quite a lot about validation from women while women care about validation from everyone.

@freemo @matrix "men don't care that much about validation from men"
Upvotes, likes, (e-)peen measuring contests makes me think otherwise.

@likho
But that's competition. When it comes to social media, it's women, especially teen girls who are most negatively affected by social media.
@freemo

@likho @freemo @matrix What makes you say that?

@likho @freemo This: https://archive.fo/gxdWu

Or this:

@likho @freemo @matrix I'm not surprised that they're generally the minority on social media then.

@likho
Teens or women?
Instagram is majority female. Facebook is about equal. Twitter is majority male.
@freemo