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MK
@mkay

For one, social-media operators discovered that the more emotionally charged the content, the better it spread across its users’ networks.
Truly democratizing cultural creativity, one might argue, would promote the development of skills and capacities rather than minimize the need for them.
This was what personal style was to me in 2008: a cipher for something much broader, a glimpse into the lives of others.
A social network is an idle, inactive system—a Rolodex of contacts, a notebook of sales targets, a yearbook of possible soul mates. But social media is active—hyperactive, really—spewing material across those networks instead of leaving them alone until needed.