This post started as a Twitter thread but, as I was writing, it seemed more appropriate as a rant here on the blog, both because of the subject matter and the increasing length. Feel free to bail out now.
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We all know that the rapid expansion of social media over the past decade or so has caused many, many problems for both individuals and society as a whole.
Arguably, it’s been even worse for kids and teenagers, many of whom tend to swim in this stuff far more than the rest of us, and are huge targets for the propaganda and data collection that have made these companies wealthy.
This post has nothing to do with their business practices. Even in the time BE,1 the company rarely made a profit and it was hard for anyone but a financial analyst to see how it might be worth tens of billions of dollars.
Writing in The Atlantic, Ian Bogost says The Age of Social Media Is Ending.
And “It never should have begun”.