Manu – I write
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Manu – I write
With TV, we at least understood ourselves to be passive observers of the screen, but the interactive nature of the internet fostered the illusion that message boards, Discord servers, and Twitter feeds are digital “places” where we can in fact hang out. If nothing else, this is a trick that gets us to stick around longer. A better analogy for onlin
... See morefrom It's Time to Lie Down and Be Counted by Drew Austin
alexi gunner added
- As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea. But I find myself desperatel... See more
from So Where Are We All Supposed to Go Now? by David Pierce
sari added
i also find myself looking for new places that feel like everyone's there - So much of social media is, by design, condensed information — it’s made to be bite-size. So the internet feels faster paced. It’s been really soothing to go to a space where I’m still meeting my desire to connect with people and talk with people, but in a digital realm that’s slower, and that is allowing for a bit more vulnerability, a bit more co... See more
from Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media? by Katja Vujić
Keely Adler and added
- The internet—everything that makes it wonderful and awful—is the product of social connection and networks of humans. If it’s enraging and chaotic and delightful and impossible to summarize because it’s being created in real time by millions of people who are all trying to make money/win affection/make friends/kill time, then it’s social media. It’... See more
from Welcome to Geriatric Social Media by Charlie Warzel
Keely Adler added
we have an opportunity to create an internet that feels alive, like cities. cities are diverse, eclectic, vibrant, messy. cities are human. let's bring humanity to the internet.
from - YouTube by Colin Dunn
sari added
- t’s easy to see how social media shapes our interactions on the internet, through web browsers, feeds, and apps. Yet technology is also shaping the physical world, influencing the places we go and how we behave in areas of our lives that didn’t heretofore seem so digital. Think of the traffic app Waze rerouting cars in Los Angeles and disrupting ot... See more
from How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world by Kyle Chayka
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Paulina Paucic and added
- In that era, people could even make their own little social networks, so the conversations and content you found on an online forum or discussion were as likely to have been hosted by the efforts of one lone creator than to have come from some giant corporate conglomerate. It was a more democratized internet, and while the world can’t return to tha... See more
from The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again by Anil Dash
Alex Dobrenko added