what is Social Media doing to us?
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
Jerod Morris and
what is Social Media doing to us?
the internet era of culture is a contest between the old model of top-down elite tastemakers telling you what's good and the new numbers-driven viral creator ecosystem in which algorithmic feeds tell you what you like
Kyle Chaykatwitter.comIn the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
Social products win with utility, not invites (Guest Post) at andrewchen
Sangeet Paul Choudaryandrewchen.com
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
Max Fisher • 3 highlights
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Twitter’s Response to the Oscars Slap Was a Predictable Cycle
Charlie Warzelnewsletters.theatlantic.com
as much as the feeds brought me things I never would have seen or heard otherwise, my overdependence on them was also cutting me off from a different realm of experiences that I had forgotten about over the course of the decade: the encounter with scarcity rather than infinity, the process of judging and choosing for myself what I wanted to see in
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Bo Burnham (the musician comedian) on the business of social media:
"[Social media firms are] coming for every second of your life...And it's not because anyone is bad, it's not because anybody in this company has evil plans or is trying to do this, they're not even doing it consciously. Their entire model is growth. They’re coming for every second
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