web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
andrea and
web as performance
I've never really met anyone else who oscillates so frequently and fervently between an intense desire for anonymity, to disappear even, and to crack oneself open entirely for the whole world to see. To be the maximum version of oneself in public, consequences be damned.
Audience Capture
sari and • 10 cards
the metrics, outward success, markers of “making it”, numbers, likes, popularity, visibility, praise or criticism or being ignored, awards, highlights, or trajectory that might come from what we make don’t matter much if we aren’t enjoying the process of making what we make.
sharing the work starts to be more important than the work itself
substack.com • Home | Substack
What we're seeing is an end of the race to the bottom.
What's happened is that most of the major social networks only hire and promote people who make decisions primarily based on analytics. As a result these sites no longer have any real communities or organic content, and have been completely hollowed out by math-friendly refrigerator magnet... See more
What's happened is that most of the major social networks only hire and promote people who make decisions primarily based on analytics. As a result these sites no longer have any real communities or organic content, and have been completely hollowed out by math-friendly refrigerator magnet... See more
Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak | Hacker News
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture
medium.com
Our Instagram feeds professionalised: the quality of photography improved, the captions were strategically wittier. The relationship to our real lives became more complicated.
This is what the internet was always meant to be. A resource for learning. It’s so simple, but we forget.