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Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
In our conversation, Nadia mentioned the classic piece “Status as a service” by Eugene Wei that details how Twitter functions (or functioned) as a giant status-seeking engine. This piece, Nadia proposed, crystalized the era of the internet when people were optimizing for likes and cultural cache in a game that felt novel and exciting. Something ess... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
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“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
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“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”
— Morgan Housel
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opinion, I feel the space has become too hostile for me to express myself in.
Katherine Ormerod • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
Social media’s combination of global reach,
performance metrics, platform design, content
format, and algorithmic interference have changed
how creators make for others, and how others
perceive and interact with creators' work.
The results are an eternal presence, persistent
feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,
harmful social comparison, crea
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