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The Tinderization of the Internet
The bike rides. The sleepovers. Your first cigarette. Gossiping about your latest crush. Being consoled when they break your heart. Discovering a new city. Re-discovering your own (at 2AM). The hungover brunches. The tears. The laughs. The love. So many of the moments that shaped us were shared with friends. And then those moments started happening... See more
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The whole idea of social networks was networking : building or deepening relationships, mostly with people you knew. How and why that deepening happened was largely left to the users to decide.
Ian Bogost • The Age of Social Media Is Ending
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other, psychologist and sociologist Dr. Sherry Turkle argues digital connections provide the illusion of companionship, and that we confuse ‘posts’ and ‘shares’ with authentic communication.
Brian Miller • Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities
In all the clamour over ‘the virtual’ and ‘the digital’, we tend to forget that social media is more about the social than the media - it’s about people coming together and what people think about us and what we think of ourselves because of that.