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Readers might be better served by posts that inform them about things that really matter. But, as you saw in the last chapter, stories with useful information are less likely to be shared virally than other types of content.
Ryan Holiday • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
The trouble with the internet is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
· from ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (2017)
quotes • *Commonplace Book
there's many answers i could respond with here; rather than directly answering why i think the original tweet (which is ambiguous at best) is true i will answer with a short anecdote of what temporally inspired tonight's instantiation of it:
i have a habit of opening apps in 'fresh' instances, e.g. without cookies or ac... See more
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