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
Opinion | I’m a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban.
nytimes.com
Finally, a different perspective on the tiktok ban.
Yep, It Is Super Hard to Break From Facebook
Hannah Smothers • You’re Not Alone if Your Social Media Boundaries Never Freakin’ Work
“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 moreI 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.
It’s hard to break away when everyone else is going in one direction.
if you want to be a person that regurgitates meaningless babble to create an illusion of competence, Linkedin is just the right place for you.
Amen
Because self-promotion sucks. It is actually very boring and not that fun to produce TikTok videos or to learn email marketing for this purpose. Hardly anyone wants to “build a platform;” we want to just have one. This is what people sign up for now when they go for the American dream — working for yourself and making money doing what you love. The... See more
Rebecca Jennings for Vox Media
there’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