Social Media Escape Club
“just bumming out my sponsors, you know. Like, they'd probably appreciate it if I drove the feed a little more… that would help them out a lot. I see that aspect — but it wouldn’t help me.”
To change the stigma around needing to be constantly available and avoid phone addiction as a whole, Sheeran made the decision to get rid of his phone and only use an iPad. His primary method of communication is now email, with the singer explaining that he only checks it around once per week
Ed Sheeran reveals he hasn’t owned a cell phone since 2015
“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 moreThe first is more social than media. It’s driven by a backlash to performative, status-seeking social media: people want to spend quality time online with close friends and family. This means less Facebook and Instagram and more WhatsApp and Messenger.
Rex Woodbury • The Evolution of Social Media: Splitting Into Social and Media
Gen Z Broke The Marketing Funnel
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/gen-z-broke-the-marketing-funnel
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
There 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