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?
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
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Regardless, what becomes important is the ability for *any* media to find the humans to enjoy it. And so, there’s likely a future inflection point where having more humans on your project is actually beneficial because it means you start off with a higher likelihood of it being shared. If the extreme becomes that we may be able look at anything for... See more
Simon de la Rouviere • The Human Medium is the Human Message
In his note, Abramov, who’s worked at the social network for four years, compared Facebook to a nuclear power plant. Facebook, unlike traditional media sources, can generate “social energy” at a scale never seen before, he said.
“But even getting small details wrong can lead to disastrous consequences,” he wrote. “Social media has enough power to
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excellent insight from Eugene Wei on Bankless podcast on the corrosive effects of the ad-based business model
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the internet is the greatest device for opening up the world ever devised. It is democratising and enabling. But that assumes its users draw on it to aid System 2 thinking. Plainly, there are times when we use it to inform key decisions – to find out about an illness, to research a holiday, to track a scientific breakthrough. But in the main the... See more