Social Media
Essays and more on social media
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Social Media
Social media offers the hope of bringing us all together but is often the instrument for tearing us apart.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
Advertisers love how non-paid content blurs with paid content because it makes their ads feel more "authentic." Platforms love it because advertisers love it.
... See moreFacebook makes me feel the way I feel when I’m in a hospital.
Freddie deBoer • The Bitter End of "Content"
Hear me out — what if instead of trying to keep up with UGC (won't work) someone started a news organization to only publish once a week with a high-quality investigation of all the biggest news of the previous week?
Alexis Ohanian 🗽x.comyes - media needs to slow the eff down
Gamification once promised to create a better society, but it’s now used mainly to addict people to apps. The gamifiers, like Skinner’s pigeons, prioritized immediate rewards over delayed ones, so they gamified for the next financial quarter and not for the future of civilization.
Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
youtube.comHow important the small communities are
Lots of consumer platforms — everything from Instagram to Youtube to Twitch — didn’t start out as ways for people to make money. They were initially about fun, status, connection and/or fame. They initially started as social networks, but as each grew their users realized they could build income off of them, which changed the trajectory of the... See more
D'Arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
Like every human endeavour, every social network is there for a limited duration and will be useful to a limited niche of people. That niche may grow to the point of being huge, like Facebook and WhatsApp. But, to this day, there are more people in the world without an account on Facebook than people with one. Every single social network is only... See more