Saved by Dayna Carney
Opinion | YouTube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up.
the company had pursued a massive business opportunity so swiftly, driven so much by a blind faith in its technology, that YouTube had unwittingly built a machine that exposed the vilest parts of human nature.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
I’m extremely wary of the cult of contemporary self-making, and the fact that it’s become an expected part of life in the attention economy for middle-class workers.
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram, we... See more
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram, we... See more
Tara Isabella Burton • Self-Made ft. Tara Isabella Burton: The History & Future of Self Curation
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
Tavi Gevinson • Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?
These days, everything is made for us, so the things that feel really and truly ours are the things that actually weren’t.