A degree of social network separation of a social network user that generated expressive content of a social media posting is identified relative to a specified social network user for each of a group of social media postings. Social media postings with an equivalent identified degree of social network separation relative to the specified social network user are grouped. Differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at different degrees of social network separation are determined. The determined differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at the different degrees of social network separation are rendered.