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
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.
Yep, It Is Super Hard to Break From Facebook
Hannah Smothers • You’re Not Alone if Your Social Media Boundaries Never Freakin’ Work
Morgan Jungels on Substack
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“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’
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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 on... 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 on... 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
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 per... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Posting Less
I 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 perso... 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 perso... See more
some pretty uncomfortable but needed insights into people’s obsession with social media coaches. By Bella Foxwell.
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 j... See more