is social media real life?
A Facebook group called Baddies in AI, geared toward women who are using A.I. to either augment their own social-media presence or create entirely new figures from scratch, has more than three hundred thousand members.
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“we’re in a global and culturewide crisis of meaning, in which manufactured realities exert pressure on the real world and we’re being manipulated more constantly and efficiently by social media than ever before while also being more conscious than we’ve ever been of that manipulation as it’s taking place.”
Where is the male equivalent to the girly pop?
She’s seen firsthand how the festival has evolved from being “solely about the music” to “a full lifestyle weekend made for social media.”
kelsey weekman • I pretended to be an influencer for 48 hours at Coachella
We don’t know each other online and a society built on people who don’t actually know each other is probably a bad idea.
Hannah Glenn • Caught Between the Internet and Reality
We have to consider a very vocal and punishing internet, alongside social norms that have been created over centuries and ingrained in us.
Hannah Glenn • Caught Between the Internet and Reality
In the real world, people are much more complicated. We are less definitive, we speak in far more understanding terms. Our thoughts, beliefs, and wants, are less clear, even to ourselves. Emotions play a much larger role too. Arguing or debating with someone in person is difficult, you can see their face and their reaction to your words.
Hannah Glenn • Caught Between the Internet and Reality
Online we have different social rules, different ways of communicating, different beliefs, and different senses of self. A person who succeeds in one might not succeed in the other. Some of the things people commonly say online would probably get you in trouble in real life. If you said something like “men are evil” or “women should be in the... See more