Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
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Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless
When I say “I don’t know where everyone went,” I know everyone’s out there surfing the web , of course, but it feels like it’s a different place now. When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet. The “For You” pages of the world are right, I am interested in that content, but I’m not seeing... See more
I miss human curation
There are those who believe the social web is reaching its terminal point. I hope they’re right. Platform after platform was designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content with one another so the corporations behind them could sell ever more of our attention and data. In different ways, most of these platforms are now in
... See moreNew York Times • Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times
To accomplish this goal, the “proud extroversion” of the early Web soon gave way to a much more homogenized experience: hundred-and-forty-character text boxes, uniformly sized photos accompanied by short captions, Like buttons, retweet counts, and, ultimately, a shift away from chronological time lines and profile pages and toward statistically... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a
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THIS chart is the CLEAREST signal of where the internet is heading.
social media time is SHRINKING for the first time in HISTORY, and young people are leading the pullback.
Brainrot is OUT.
they grew up online, saw the full cycle of social platforms, and learned... See more