Social Media Escape Club
The web is not dying. The web is huge. The web is ever-expanding. The fact that the web is just the same 5 big websites is a fucking lie. It’s like saying the restaurant industry is the same 5 fast food chains. It is not. It’s up to you to decide to stop visiting those 5 sites and stop ingesting their fast food content.
The web is not dying – Manu
“There are two ways for your content to gain immediate traction: somebody references it or an algorithm serves it. Both provide liquidity to your content, distributing it to interested consumers.
If you write something amazing, a few emails to some key people in your field is all you need to start this process.”
https://www.humaninvariant.com/blog/au
... See moreThere are no tips, tools, tricks— no gimmicks— No amount of money, lack of it thereof that will save you from the thing that keeps you running back to the noise, to the avatars— and other drugs. It is You
time spent offline • You; Sitting With Yourself
I’m not searching for gmail.com, I’m searching for something , something of the past. That feeling. When I first learned to want and be wanted in a specific way; differently. All of it happened over the internet, the devices, the notifications. And what can I do about it now? Except hope that with enough time, enough effort, I will learn to forget... See more
Angry and curious
content marketing vs world-building — kening zhu
keningzhu.com
No one ever bought anything on an elevator. Your pitch isn’t designed to fully explain what you do or even to make the sale. Your ride on the elevator only exists to make it more likely that someone will follow you out of the elevator asking you questions about what you do.
“If you only exist in the minds of your consumers as an Instagram handle, you haven’t built a brand. You’ve built an account,” Jamie R Cox
https://brandburnout.substack.com/p/am-i-the-girl-who-deleted-instagram
We’re playing and creating together in real-time. Not only that, we have to work, and it’s this effortful, again, can’t-quite-put-your-finger-to-it thing of having to give of yourself, that creates a strong community.
