Relating with social media
On why social media won't save us and my personal journey to healing from its scars
Relating with social media
We’re at an inflection point.
The tide is turning in the conversation around digital growth and social media. We’re tired of losing months of the year to our phones, of producing content for content’s sake, of trying to keep up with platforms that demand more and give back less. We’re thinking critically about the way we spend our days and lives... See more
The tide is turning in the conversation around digital growth and social media. We’re tired of losing months of the year to our phones, of producing content for content’s sake, of trying to keep up with platforms that demand more and give back less. We’re thinking critically about the way we spend our days and lives... See more
Matilda Lucy • Permission to stop, start, and evolve—no matter the timing
Permission to stop, start, and evolve—no matter the timing – Matilda Lucy
I know Instagram has lots of faults. I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s perfect. But what got lost in the “I’m Leaving Social Media” discourse is that shunning a platform like Instagram does not make the job of growing a following, a business, an email list, a publication any easier.
used to work with a client who followed many of these coaches. Her feed was FULL of fantasy marketing and after a while, whether you like it not, that gets to a person.
Not least because of the echo chamber effect of social media. Once you follow one of these grifters individuals, your Explore page is full of them.
And when I say it gets to a person,... See more
Not least because of the echo chamber effect of social media. Once you follow one of these grifters individuals, your Explore page is full of them.
And when I say it gets to a person,... See more
Some pretty uncomfortable but real and needed words about our obsession with instagram gurus. https://open.substack.com/pub/bellafoxwell/p/instagram-coaches?r=123caf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Bella Foxwell
Opinion | I’m a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban.
nytimes.com
Finally, a different perspective on the tiktok ban.
Few, if any, of this moment’s apparently unstoppable tech platforms will survive for long. The people on them will eventually leave—when they’re forced to do so by the continuous degradation of their experience, or because they’re forced to do so because their governments put the hammer down, as Brazil recently demonstrated—or sometimes when they... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
There’s no urgency to idleness. Why not be idle tomorrow, once you’ve finished everything you have to do today? You will never get a midnight text reminding you to do nothing. You will never get a calendar invite to do nothing.
On the idea of idleness. Of actively not doing in response to a world where everyone is obsessed with doing as much as possible.
A succinct elevator pitch for your newsletter is much more marketable than being a whole person who communicates their ideas via blog. That said, some people, including me, market their blog as a publication dealing in existentialism and philosophy and the chronicles of life in the world today, which leaves room for your perspective to change as... See more
Cydney Hayes • The elite capture of Substack
How does one start a new business or sell a product in a world without advertising?
How do you scale something fast enough through just word of mouth to get out of the red?
If I open a new bakery, is it predatory to send a pamphlet to the nearby houses? Should I just sit quietly and hope that enough people notice?
How do you scale something fast enough through just word of mouth to get out of the red?
If I open a new bakery, is it predatory to send a pamphlet to the nearby houses? Should I just sit quietly and hope that enough people notice?
mertd • Advertising and marketing have ruined *society*, the internet is just one of a l... | Hacker News
Ah, the age old question!
A lot of social media these days makes me feel like I’m doing it wrong; I’m not going to the right places or wearing the right thing or doing the right workout (or any workout tbh). Sure, it’s kinda an obvious takeaway about a common feeling, but what was less obvious to me is how this week’s contributor Alex Dobrenko characterizes this experience:... See more