what is Social Media doing to us?
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what is Social Media doing to us?
The Social Media Death Spiral
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The sheer volume of information available puts a lot of pressure on the speed of communication. Creative content must be understood instantly, otherwise there is no traction. The paradox of this output is that it must be familiar and uncomplicated, but also astonishing and new.
Jack Self • THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
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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Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media
crooked.comIn all the clamour over ‘the virtual’ and ‘the digital’, we tend to forget that social media is more about the social than the media - it’s about people coming together and what people think about us and what we think of ourselves because of that.