We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think
“This moves us very quickly towards a world in which the Internet shows us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.”
David Mannheim • The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal
The next (and honestly current) phase of social media needs a better title. The internet is best for things related to curiosity, exploration, discovery, and expression. We need its title to better reflect + subconsciously instill that for users
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“The stream has dominated our lives since the mid-2000s,” Caulfield says. But it means people are either posting content or consuming it. And, Caulfield says, the internet as it stands rewards shock value and dumbing things down. “By engaging in digital gardening, you are constantly finding new connections, more depth and nuance,” he says.
technologyreview.com • Digital Gardens Let You Cultivate Your Own Little Bit of the Internet
the Internet was supposed to educate and inform us, but instead it has created a society-wide poverty of attention.*
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
