what is Social Media doing to us?

Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.

All That Is Air Melts into Air

McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics. Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.

LM Sacasas x.com

Andreas Vlach

Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times

Ezra Klein nytimes.com

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2023 | Activate

activate.com

Jilber Najem

Opinion | YouTube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up.

New York Times nytimes.com

Dayna Carney

The Like Button Ruined the Internet

James Somers theatlantic.com

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frenetic aimlesness

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Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis

medium.com

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What's Become Of Us?

open.substack.com

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