As a devout non-user of social media I find the compulsion to share on insta or FB everything you climb pretty ridiculous and hard to understand. But then I've never cared what anyone beyond my immediate circle is doing or what they think.
I think there are probably a couple of things going on - most people don't share every other thing they do on social media, but enough people do share the occasional thing they do, and if you follow lot of people it adds up to a constant stream of seeing people going out climbing, flying, skiing, biking etc. Which I imagine creates all sort of difficult emotions in the reader such as jealousy and comparison, which causes us to question. Hey it's almost as if the companies who sell this bullshit have realised the commercial power of selling our peers’ lives as their content...
As for climbing, I've stopped giving a fuck. I went to Tremadog for some nice sunny trad yesterday, the pass for bouldering a few days before that, and likely will head out to Caseg boulder today. I'm currently living in Bethesda. If stopped by the police I'll politely explain what I'm doing and where I'm from and they can decide to send me on my way or allow me to continue. I'm certainly beyond caring much about optics or transmission in the N.Wales area. We couldn't be much more heavily policed and restricted.