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pshaw_raven) wrote2019-05-19 11:32 am
pshaw_raven) wrote2019-05-19 11:32 am
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Can "Indie" Social Media Save Us? an interesting article by Cal Newport - soft paywall
I think there's a lot to be said in favor of recent ideas like the much-touted one of "break up Facebook," but to me the better question is "do we even need social media at all?" And I think the answer is "Nope." Jaron Lanier is correct in his assertion that social media is basically ruining everything - civilization, discourse, free time, and our brains. And the remedy for that may not be better social media platforms, but personal-level decisions to abandon it altogether. I don't know where this would leave things like Dreamwidth - though to be honest I see a difference between blogging platforms and social media ones.
I think there's a lot to be said in favor of recent ideas like the much-touted one of "break up Facebook," but to me the better question is "do we even need social media at all?" And I think the answer is "Nope." Jaron Lanier is correct in his assertion that social media is basically ruining everything - civilization, discourse, free time, and our brains. And the remedy for that may not be better social media platforms, but personal-level decisions to abandon it altogether. I don't know where this would leave things like Dreamwidth - though to be honest I see a difference between blogging platforms and social media ones.