Cruel optimism, social media and big tech
Exploring the intersection how big tech uses cruel optimism to respond to criticism re social media and mobile tech stealing our attention — and including the perspective of people who rely on social media for a living. Do they truly believe in it?
Finally someone said it out loud
Exactly what I went through when I said enough social media marketing work. No thank you.
In the beginning there was the internet.
one marketer alone can claim that their work, the content they put out won’t have any meaningful impact on social media addition and the fact that we’re all losing focus. But 100-10.000 marketers?
Marketers who are afraid of becoming addicted to social media use giving each other simplistic, purely personal solutions to a problem they themselves have a hand in
Might explain why other forms of marketing aren’t as pursued as social media and advertisement