what is Social Media doing to us?
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
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what is Social Media doing to us?
we 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.comAnother study found that college students in 2010 were 40 percent less empathetic than students from 30 years earlier. A big contributor to this is undoubtedly the rise of technology and social media, which encourages fleeting superficial connection, not empathy.
In another study, researchers put multiple pairs of strangers in a room together and
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Louis C.K. thoughts on Social Media | Chris Distefano: Chrissy Chaos
youtube.comFrom Bill Gates’ conversation with Trevor Noah on the What now? podcast, reflecting on social media and the Internet:
... See moreOur industry was very young and just incredibly fast moving, but it didn't have this, oh, this will be a tool for Holocaust denial or weird impacts. And the idea that it would directly be used for political influence, one country
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the game of social media is to keep us creating assets that depreciate in hours. If they took months to depreciate, we wouldn’t use the platform as much. But because it’s hours, we “need” to spend more and more and more and more of our time on the platform for it to work for us.