social media
Gen Z knows what smartphones and endless algorithms are doing to them, and the reality is devastating.
Thank you Emily Falvey and Evie Grace Fowler of the @bruinsonqueue podcast for putting it so strikingly:
“Our generation will be the first generation to die with more memories of other... See more
instagram.comEpisode 546: We need to start talking about how we’re gonna get off Instagram and Meta!! Feat @itsmaddykelly
Hosted by @kareem
Created by @kareem & @akuoproject
Shot by @arobinsonfilm @sitcom__stupid
Edited by @tylerbat
Associate producers @ramy_shafi... See more
instagram.comYou’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
10 Dark Arts of TikTok
docs.google.comwith tiktok temporarily closed, maybe it’s time to rethink how we use the internet. imagine if instagram shut down at 9 pm, like a grocery store, or X closed at 11 pm (open late, but not 24/7).
we might all feel a little less pressure—to read, to post, to exist online all the time. maybe we’d sleep better, feel calmer,... See more
signüllx.com
where a teenager's TikTok can tank a stock faster than a Goldman Sachs downgrade.
Zoe Scaman • The Synthesised Strategist
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
