what is Social Media doing to us?
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what is Social Media doing to us?
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
Nix đtwitter.comIn all the clamour over âthe virtualâ and âthe digitalâ, we tend to forget that social media is more about the social than the media - itâs about people coming together and what people think about us and what we think of ourselves because of that.
Jonathan Rowson ⢠Taming the Blue Bird
We have a chance to do work weâre proud of, and to do it for people who care. And maybe we can do it in a way that will lead them to tell the others. Traffic from an algorithm isnât the point, itâs a random bonus.
No sense being a puppet, especially if you canât be sure who is pulling the strings or why.
Seth Godin ⢠You Canât Beat the Algorithm
Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331
youtube.comThe problem is, we no longer live solely among those we know well. We're now forced to refine our personalities by the countless eyes of strangers. And this has begun to affect the process by which we develop our identities.
Gurwinder ⢠The Perils of Audience Capture
I see two divergent media futures emergingâeach based on networks that serve very different groups.
In the first future, our networks serve the technologists who build them, the advertisers that pay for them, and the governments that control them. These networks compete for users in a war for attention by making systems that spit out superficially... See more
In the first future, our networks serve the technologists who build them, the advertisers that pay for them, and the governments that control them. These networks compete for users in a war for attention by making systems that spit out superficially... See more
Chris Best ⢠The Two Futures of Media
as much as the feeds brought me things I never would have seen or heard otherwise, my overdependence on them was also cutting me off from a different realm of experiences that I had forgotten about over the course of the decade: the encounter with scarcity rather than infinity, the process of judging and choosing for myself what I wanted to see in
... See moreKyle Chayka ⢠Filterworld
Bo Burnham (the musician comedian) on the business of social media:
"[Social media firms are] coming for every second of your life...And it's not because anyone is bad, it's not because anybody in this company has evil plans or is trying to do this, they're not even doing it consciously. Their entire model is growth. Theyâre coming for every second
... See moreAttention Economy
exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory
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