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Tag: socialmedia

  • don’t call it “social media,” call it “parasocial media”

    In 2006, most people who logged into the large platforms posted content because they were co-constructing sociable spaces to enjoy the companionship of others. In 2026, posting has waned (John, 2024); most social media users prioritize scrolling ‘amateur’ content rather than posting their own haphazard updates for friends. The quality of the media on social…

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  • Outrage about TikTok, so heated a few years ago, now seems like a time capsule from another era. That the negligent, self-dealing new arrangement seems to be going ahead with so little opposition shows not that TikTok has become safer, but that so much else in America has become more dangerous. From The Economist, gift-link:…

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  • How to write in LinkedIn-style

    “It involves posing a provocative question, sharing a vulnerability that you have learnt from (ideally losing your job, pet or parent), using an emoji at the start of each paragraph, and the paragraphs being absurdly short.” 🔗 It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code

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  • My new rule based on Whitney’s life-choices: if you want to take a selfie with me, I need to witness you posting it immediately.

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  • 🔗 You’re not Facebook. Why use their tools?

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  • The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends.” 🔗 How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity

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  • There’s a wave of “Back in my day…” nostalgia in the near future as us Gen-X’ers get older. I hope we do it more cool than the boomers did, or just quietly on our own instead of all over Facebook.

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  • After migrating my Mastodon instance from social.lol to here, I seem to have lost about 1,000 followers. I’m sure they are enjoying a little less pictures of chairs next to garbage cans.

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  • The airwaves are always there

    The airwaves are always there

    You should check this out: You can try out our AI platform with a 90 day trial. It’ll host models in private cloud, act as a proxy to public models (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, whatever), and has tight integration with Java apps. Python works fine too, of course: you can host LangChain in it to get…

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  • Meta Says Threads Has Over 400 Million Monthly Active Users – “What is even more amazing about this statistic is how non-essential Threads seems to be.”

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  • Exploited Kidfluencers: Dutch Cabinet wants stricter child labor rules for social media – ”Nobel said that he understands ‘that people enjoy seeing into other people’s lives on social media.’ But he fears that it will be at the expense of the well-being of children if the entire family is exposed. Their psychological well-being and development…

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  • morning computer sociomediapath – As ever, the way to improve productivity is stop interrupting people, be they writers, programmers, or any “make something” type.

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  • Links and fun finds for February 2rd, 2025

    Links and fun finds for February 2rd, 2025

    Hello. How are you today? Captured by Ken Shirriff. Relative to your interests D&D: Some Kind Of Monster (Type) – This is a great pondering of monster types and their, like, existential essence. Lots to think on! // “The convoluted agreements common to many Fey are an aspect of their adherence to a particular vector…

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  • 2025-01-21 – “I do not have a solution for any of this stuff, and I despair as much as the next sane human being, but one thing has become clearer and clearer since 2016; social media, like Monty Python’s Camelot, is a silly place.”

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  • Token stream 2024-11-22 – jdilla.xyz – “If you try and tell people 5 interesting things about your product / company / cause, they’ll remember zero. If instead, you tell them just one, they’ll usually ask questions that lead them to the other things, and then they’ll remember all of them because it mattered to them…

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  • Hyping on Twitter Mostly Garbage Now

    Hyping on Twitter Mostly Garbage Now

    Comparing two years of Twitter engagement to a month of Bluesky engagement Like everyone else, I consider giving up on Twitter daily, especially with the US election bullshit. I don’t really read much on there anymore (I’ve tried all the tricks, even subscribing some months ago), but I still post things hoping to get the…

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  • Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media – “Do some people experience harms through social media? Absolutely. But it’s important to acknowledge that most of these harms involve people using social media to harm others. It’s reasonable that they should be held accountable. It’s not reasonable to presume that you can design a system that…

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  • Does Social Media Cause Anything? – It’s difficult to collect data about social media’s effects (good or bad). // “the ever-present spiderweb of the social graph, the network of accounts, RTs and likes that lets me understand not only what someone thinks but what everyone else thinks about them thinking that.”

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  • The breath of the gods – Video influencer technique: have the video format/style match the medium. // “I have uploaded a different version to the great algo­rithmic mills, where the breath of the gods upon a scrap of video can propel it” And: “The smile, with the wince: that’s the overall expression of the 2020s internet.”

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  • The Chilling of TikTok – Yeah, never good for a tech company to be get its feelings hurt: “the bigger concern will simply be the distraction of it all. Product decisions will take longer. Timelines will slip. Executives will be absent. Employees will leave.”

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