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While an intuitive position, recent research has shown that social media users exhibit <jats:italic>self<\/jats:italic>-filtering tendencies. In this paper, I apply Hannah Arendt\u2019s theory of political judgment to hypothesize a cause for self-filtering on social media. According to Arendt, a crucial step in political judgment is the imagination of a general standpoint of distinct yet equal perspectives, against which individuals compare their own judgments in order to test their defensibility. I argue that social media inhibit this step by gamifying the pursuit of social status, which encourages users to consider the perspectives of others not for the sake of a general standpoint but for the sake of improving their social status, resulting in self-filtering. 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