What I Talk About When I Talk About Social Media

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1. @yang, 2024-02-02 What I Talk About When I Talk About Social Media
2. smartphone noun can be a bathroom companion
3. millennial noun a person growing up with internet
4. internet noun yet another thing broken in China
5. COVID-19 noun a wake-up call for human
6. social media noun mixture of personal connections and public news
7. algorithm noun a way for tycoons of social media to keep you in
8. declutter verb you should probably do more often for things
9. quit noun at least you should think about it for social media
10. smartphone noun often a slot machine nowadays
11. data noun own it yourself, and try not to give it away to monopolies
12. friend noun you won’t lose them without social media
13. social media noun digital drug causing addictions for people
14. user noun human produces attention commodity with time
15. smartphone noun better to be treated as a landline
16. like noun a fake way to maintain relationships
17. book noun something most people don’t read (anymore)
18. fediverse noun social network as it should be
19. RSS noun the old way is better
20. social media noun an unethical business
21. Resources • NetNewsWire • Fediverse - Wikipedia • IndieWeb • Goodreads • The Social Dilemma • The Deep Life by Cal Newport
22. Resources • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport • Make Time by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky • How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price • How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell • Stolen Focus by Johann Hari • Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier