what is Social Media doing to us?
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what is Social Media doing to us?
the GPS/mapping function of the phone is quite useful — but apart from that, our phones really aren’t doing much that our computers don’t do, they’re just portable and thus available to disrupt any potential boredom.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
via Sam Kriss: A chaser: “Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive.”
You have permission to kill me if I ever end a tweet with: “If you liked this, follow me for more content like this.”
Nikita Bierx.com
CONFIDENTIAL HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED NOT FOR CIRCULATION/COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF ONLY
Mark Zuckerbergsriramk.comso @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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