The Year in Apps I Gave Up On §

Metadata §

• Author: Kyle Chayka
• Full Title: The Year in Apps I Gave Up On
• Category:#articles
• Date read: 2022-12-16
• URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/the-year-in-apps-i-gave-up-on

Key takeaways §

• BeReal shows how uneventful our lives actually are and how biased the Instagram feed really is

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Highlights §

• It was a fun game for a few weeks, but BeReal became less appealing when I realized that when the alert went off I usually wasn’t doing anything interesting, and neither was anyone else. On social media there’s such a thing as too much authenticity (View Highlight)