what is Social Media doing to us?

Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.

Alara added 1y

Knowing you live in a magpie culture is worth keeping in mind. If, as Isaiah Berlin once said, “foxes” are people who know many little things, and “hedgehogs” people who know one big thing, then the more recent “magpie” is someone who knows nothing yet manages to maintain a beautiful nest of ideas that aren’t theirs.

We live in a culture of magpies

sari added 6mo

provocative - on how the only people that are famous on social media are 1) famous to begin with or 2) people unbothered by minor theft of ideas because stealing other people’s content is the only strategy that can reliably build large audiences from scratch on websites with high content demands.

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 added 1y