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?
On Information
the past, present, and future of how we find, monetize, and relate to information.
sari and • 140 cards
How social media algorithms reward clickbait and outrage, shaping creator behavior, language norms, and incentives for extremity.
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I can't believe I stayed. I can't believe I sat here for 11 minutes, wasted 11 minutes of my life on this. One of the things that we used to have access to was this tool called CrowdTangle. So I could actually download all of the videos that these pages had ever put out. I could download the metadata around them, all the titles. And you can see the
... See morewe fucked up when we switched from excellent metaphors like web-surfing and hyperlinking and internet exploring and netscape navigating. We were voyagers. Now yall doomscroll. wtf is that. If you’re gonna face the doom, be a doomsurfer. a doomslayer. [BFG Division theme hits]
Visakan Veerasamyx.comthe GPS/mapping function of the phone is quite useful — but apart from that, our phones really aren’t doing much that our computers don’t do, they’re just portable and thus available to disrupt any potential boredom.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
via Sam Kriss: A chaser: “Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive.”