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Social media §

• Social media provides instant relief from discomfort
• Young people work hard to gain status on social media because they have no other sources of social capital yet
• Leaving social media platforms
  • The perks of living without social media
  • What I learned Taking a Year-Long Break from Social Media
  • BeReal shows how uneventful our lives actually are and how biased the Instagram feed really is
• Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
• In the day of the postman
• Is internet addiction eradicating the habit of reading
  • Quiet and stillness was rare before smartphones and social media
• Context shifting
• A drawback of digital communication is that the messages never go away
• One blind spot due to the design of Twitter is passive negative sentiment
• The algorithmic feeds of today enhance trivial content that produces outrage and other strong reactions
  • Outrage can be a way to enhance your prestige in a public forum
  • When social media giants like Facebook and Twitter prioritize algorithmic feeds for distraction, they compete with all other forms of distraction
  • The news feed expanded the competition for status to everyone you have every met, rather than the people in your vicinity
  • Revenue on social platforms does not come from the value of the content itself, but its ability to grab attention for ads
  • The viral dynamics of social media platforms nudges us to produce and consume junk info
  • Artists are reduced to content creators and pressured to produce a constant stream of content
  • The low-context structure of social media platforms forces you to take a stance and express your opinions as a way to relate to others