Social Media Escape Club
this week, if you have time to do one extra thing, I suggest connecting with someone in a way that counts. It doesn’t have to be big, or take a lot of time.
Cat Ferguson • https://sf.gazetteer.co/those-weird-spam-texts-are...
“I made the thing I wished existed,” David Speed
Engagement is the new uniques. The traffic era of publishing has ended. Nobody brags about their ComScore uniques anymore; engagement is the new North Star.
If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.
Courtney Romano • Hey Coco: Am I undisciplined?
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.
The internet of today is a battleground. The idealism of the ’90s web is gone. The web 2.0 utopia — where we all lived in rounded filter bubbles of happiness — ended with the 2016 Presidential election when we learned that the tools we thought were only life-giving could be weaponized too. The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Online is meant to aid in our reality, not be it