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 Yes, these platforms are… Show more

Most of the social internet has become about building an audience and connecting people to brands and influencers. It’s better understood as a performance by the top 1%, not as a way to exchange knowledge or connect people to one another.

the point of life is other people. I agree with David Rudnick’s diagnosis that we’ve moved from “digital dualism,“ falsely asserting the Internet was “not real life,” to what he calls “digital prime,” realizing the Internet is perhaps the most space we have. But this means there will be a new insistence that URL serve IRL—not replace it.

Gurwinder

4h

“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”

— Morgan Housel

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.

per Max Read, “The main purpose of social media is to call attention to yourself.” As he points out in this essay I still love, the fact that anyone can join social media and publish an opinion lends the industry a democratic air while it profits off of our every spare thought. We’re lulled into a stupor and call it participation. “Each new byte of... See more

In this age of digital cacophony dominated by these platforms, no one is looking out for you… but you. It makes perfect sense, then, when individuals tell me they want their website to do the job of “setting the record straight” on who they are and what they do.