Tag: social
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🤖 The social media martyr
The week’s Stratechery interview is with Jeremy Stern, editor-in-chief of Colossus, about profiling Mark Zuckerberg, and Ben Thompson discloses up front that he sat for an off-the-record interview as part of the piece. Stern spoke to almost forty people over five to six months. What he came out with is a reframing rather than a…
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People in LinkedIn might be annoying, but they’re not cruel
LinkedIn is tied to an actual identity, and people wanting act like employable adults. So it has less of the childish bullshit in other social media, and very little of the fun. Plus. Dramatic. Typing. 🔗 What is LinkedIn?
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LinkedIn is the new social network
This reflects the data above, LinkedIn is clearly a bigger source of traffic than X, which is far above bluesky (we can’t really assess Mastodon here, but I expect it would also be a very thin line). But even LinkedIn is a minor source of traffic compared to google. LinkedIn won the post-Twitter eyeball grab.…
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People want to content from real people
…of course, the revealed preference would say otherwise… 41% of respondents said they post to their Instagram grid once a month or less, with similar results for Facebook (38%) and TikTok (47%).* Sixty-four percent of respondents described themselves as passive users, including the majority of Gen Z and Millennial respondents. Whether correlative or causative, the…
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get rid of that crap blocking your YouTube shorts
YouTube is also introducing a new “Clear Screen mode,” which is designed to temporarily hide “all icons and text from your playback view,” giving users a clean view of their content unencumbered by floating distractions. 🔗 YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
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Don’t expect results from TikTok
That is incredibly hard work. And most of the people who work really hard at it don’t get lucky and just peter out. And even the ones who do get lucky. They peter out too. It’s too hard. 🔗 I posted to TikTok every day for a year and I learned nothing
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Inside the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’
An archived copy of a report on the cutthroat community of “clippers”. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Inside the cutthroat community of ‘clippers’
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90 minutes of hell is other people
This feels like me: NEWMARK: I guess, ideally, I would have more social skills—meaning, some. COWEN: We’re simulating social skills just fine here. NEWMARK: That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery. I can do it for short amounts of time, maybe 90 minutes. I’ve…
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Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States
Social stuff: ‘Maybe this is the most important result: since 1976 there has not been much divergence between liberal and conservative attitudes toward civil liberties or law enforcement. The divergence on government spending is noticeable but not enormous (see p.39). the divergence on “Marriage, Sex, Abortion” is quite large. In another words, the true polarization…
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The new industry analysts, again
Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new crop of IT industry analysts who end up getting compared incorrectly to journalists. It’s little wonder as most people have little idea what an industry analyst does; it’s not like analysts, hidden behind their austere paywalls, help much there.…
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