So glad I discovered this newsletter. These apps are rather bullish or desperate...? Something is off and I don't know how to put it in words. While I am enjoying this platform so much thanks to newsletters like this, the back to back emails of new features .. Idk .. The Meta vs. TikTok (they are def. in incahoots regardless lol) .... The moment Instagram copied Snapchat's stories years ago, I feel like that started this spiral we see today in "social" media. The globalized digital market has driven a "social" monotonous framework.. Idk I am still processing this as a sociologist yet lover of technological innovation. Great work!
Tell me more! I'd love to hear what rabbit hole you're currently digging into as a sociologist + lover of tech innovation. It's a fascination of mine - that bigger human/social aspect of it, so if you have any interesting reads/resources, I'd love to dig in!
So glad I discovered this newsletter. These apps are rather bullish or desperate...? Something is off and I don't know how to put it in words. While I am enjoying this platform so much thanks to newsletters like this, the back to back emails of new features .. Idk .. The Meta vs. TikTok (they are def. in incahoots regardless lol) .... The moment Instagram copied Snapchat's stories years ago, I feel like that started this spiral we see today in "social" media. The globalized digital market has driven a "social" monotonous framework.. Idk I am still processing this as a sociologist yet lover of technological innovation. Great work!
Tell me more! I'd love to hear what rabbit hole you're currently digging into as a sociologist + lover of tech innovation. It's a fascination of mine - that bigger human/social aspect of it, so if you have any interesting reads/resources, I'd love to dig in!
"BF Island" sounds like a very bad singles reality show, if not a story from The Onion ;)
100000000% - I can’t believe they went with that name!
We are in the attention economy, so everything our eyeballs see and our earholes hear is commodified, tokenized, and used to sell more things at us.
So be careful what you look at and listen to or your devices will be using you!