the end of the legacy internet

Yet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds ... See more

We have unwittingly made a rod for our own backs by allowing technology to add to our mental burden rather than relieve it.

Or what I hate the most — the nostalgia bating. More and more content is just reboots, cameos, and feature artists, all done not for artistic merit but to generate engagement.

To drive that engagement, media companies in all industries have turned to volume at all costs — quantity over quality. Throw enough shit at the wall, and something will stick until eventually it too doesn’t, and it’ll get canceled before it concludes

I think that this whole smartphone scrolling, content consuming, ubiquitous posting, Extremely Online thing is going to go the way of the Fedora, or the Marlboro smoked at cruising altitude in economy class. In the end it is all going to fade. This may not happen for a good number of years, but I truly believe it will happen. I think we’ll look bac... See more

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

— Morgan Housel