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What is the problem with social media?
The end result is a world where the ability for anyone to post any idea has, paradoxically, meant far greater mass adoption of popular ideas and far more effective suppression of “bad” ideas. That is invigorating when one feels the dominant idea is righteous; it seems reasonable to worry about the potential of said sense of righteousness overwhelmi... See more
stratechery.com • The Current Thing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
this kind of hyper-accelerated expression on social media is not exactly helpful (not to mention the huge amount of value it produces for Facebook). It’s not a form of communication driven by reflection and reason, but rather a reaction driven by fear and anger.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
I wrote a few weeks ago about how the nature of our social networks and content platforms leads to cultural sameness via supercharging fad culture. But increasingly the social networks and content platforms themselves suffer from the same effect.
Tal Shachar • More of the Same
