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
Yep, It Is Super Hard to Break From Facebook
Hannah Smothers • You’re Not Alone if Your Social Media Boundaries Never Freakin’ Work
The Flattening
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“We’ve been too busy reacting that whence forgotten how to respond”
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
“It’s probs fair to say that basically all of us have considered quitting the apps altogether or at the very least setting some healthy boundaries to keep the feeds from eating up all our mental and emotional energy. I mean, skipping one whole day of scrolling past “friends” who question the efficacy of science-backed vaccines or images of peoples’
... See morethere’s something larger going on, particularly with those of us who’ve been posting for most of our adult lives: on Tumblr, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Snapchat, on Instagram. We’re exhausted with the labor of self-documentation — especially when it seems that our posts aren’t even surfacing for our close friends. But we’re also tired of being... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Posting Less
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
Sean Parker, Facebook’s founding president, said: “The thought process that went into building these applications ... was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’”
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
In a 2017 interview, Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker said:
“The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, … was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’ And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while. […] It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”
Opinion | I’m a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban.
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Finally, a different perspective on the tiktok ban.
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!