web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
by andrea and · updated 9d ago
web as performance
- A lot more people would start a YouTube channel if view counts weren’t visible
sari added 1y ago
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right community is really hard. A better way is to use novel technologies and network mechanics to matchmake in real-time. You get a new community every second depending on what you’re thinking.
sari added 1y ago
- There are plenty of well-documented reasons to distrust Instagram — the platform where one is never not branding, never not making Facebook money, never not giving Facebook one’s data — but most unnerving are the ways in which it has led me to distrust myself. After countless adventures through the black hole, my propensity to share, perform, and e... See more
from Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram? by Tavi Gevinson
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- "when the underlying message behind a photo isn’t just “I’m still alive and I want you to pay attention to me right now please,” but “this thing I’m sharing is making me feel really alive, and I’m excited to share it with you because I think it’s worth your attention.” (Nozlee Samadzadeh)
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