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Quick Links for Wednesday, January 3
To accomplish this goal, the “proud extroversion” of the early Web soon gave way to a much more homogenized experience: hundred-and-forty-character text boxes, uniformly sized photos accompanied by short captions, Like buttons, retweet counts, and, ultimately, a shift away from chronological time lines and profile pages and toward statistically opt... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Facebook already is a virtual graveyard—dead friendships full of memories, nothing more.
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
What happens when the Internet becomes a never-ending firehose of malicious garbage?
This is what happens: You start logging off the Internet....
... and logging in to more curated, closed communities.
No more talking to fake people on Twitter or Facebook. No more using Google for search.
Instead, everything happens in closed Slack or Discord commu
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Social media is no longer meant for connecting with friends; it is designed almost entirely to facilitate the following of brands and the monetizing of personalities.
Kyle Chayka - The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump