what is Social Media doing to us?
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what is Social Media doing to us?
During my years on Twitter, I became addicted to the ongoing certainty that the next click, the next link would bring clarity. I believed that if I read every last conspiracy theory and threaded tweet, the reward would be illumination. I would finally be able to understand not only what was happening but what it meant and what consequences it would... See more
we’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for... See more
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youtube.comReframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis
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Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
Paul Virilio
this insight from morgan housel on tim ferriss: "People think they're capturing attention but what they're actually fostering is envy."
Can Elon Musk turn Twitter into an “everything app”?
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so @julesterpak articulated this on her tiktok (linked below)
Social media's positivity/toxicity is inherently about user intent. There's a huge difference between:
a) posting to get a reaction
b) archiving a memory that you're comfortable... See more
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