Social Media
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Social Media
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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
Social as a model works when people have about as much to offer as they want to receive along a given axis. But no trait is distributed uniformly; there are are outliers in the nice-to-look-at, nice-to-listen-to, nice-to-read, nice-to-get-stock-tips from axes, there's a population that can offer a respectable performance with these traits, and ther... See more
Is "Social" an Enduring Category or Just a Phase?
On the death of social media
In 2021, growing share of Americans said they used YouTube; Facebook remained one of the most widely used online platforms among U.S. adults
pewresearch.orgAll social networking apps fall on a spectrum from love to fame.
Li Jin • Love vs. fame: A framework for social applications
Li Jin’s observations on how social media apps/networks fall on a spectrum of love vs. fame
Ritual is vital because it gives us a sense that we belong to the world. A sense of connectedness, whether to society, nature or the divine, is in turn linked to a sense of psychological wholeness and lower rates of mental illness.
Social media offers the opposite; connection without relatedness.
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Costs of Social Media | Dino Ambrosi | TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool
youtube.com“Social media is free because you pay for it with your time.”
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