what is Social Media doing to us?

Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.

How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis

Charlie Warzel newsletters.theatlantic.com

Even the guy who invented the infinite scroll later regretted it. These interfaces are not designed to help you—swiping and scrolling are rarely the best ways to do anything. They aren’t designed to solve your problem, but actually aim to prevent closure, and create an illusion that there are still infinite choices available to you.

Alara

Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over It.

On my Om om.co

aalex

"What appeared to be a social utopia has now transformed into an algorithm-driven profit machine"

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

New York Times nytimes.com

Dayna Carney

Clubhouse and the Future of Cult-Driven Social Platforms

The Information theinformation.com

SpaceXponential

In the Next Era of Social, Build Rituals, Not Habits

Anu Atluru every.to

sari

this insight from morgan housel on tim ferriss: "People think they're capturing attention but what they're actually fostering is envy."

sari

The TikTok War: Why High School & College Kids Are Getting The Wrong Information about Hamas & Israel I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we're losing the information war with high school & college students.

Jeff Morris Jr.x.com

pphoebe

wow. this is a very serious problem.

We live in a time when more interesting ideas, concepts, people, and places can fly by in the space of one 30 minute TikTok binge than our ancestors experienced in the entirety of their localized illiterate lives.

alex