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unstructed.tech
Your attention span is being robbed!
unstructed.tech
6 min read · Sep 8th · This is exactly why you can’t focus on reading anything longer than a mobile page length these days. Not even a blog post, let alone a book! Your attention span is being robbed! You are being robbed… · Shared by 64
The Verge
I tried replacing Google with TikTok, and it worked better than I thought
The Verge
6 min read · Sep 21st · TikTok won’t kill Google yet, but it’s a new and fun way to think about search. · Shared by 92, including Matt Navarra, Ernie Smith, Stef Walter
a16z
What China Can Teach Us About the Future of TikTok and Video Search
a16z
7 min read · Sep 21st · The concept of video search is a critical functionality that social media companies are starting to realize they need to figure out… and fast. · Shared by 81, including Redouane Ramdani, James Young
erikhoel.substack.com
The gossip trap
erikhoel.substack.com
20+ min read · Sep 7th · How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it · Shared by 18, including Jonathan Haidt
The New York Times
How LinkedIn Became a Place to Overshare
The New York Times
8 min read · Sep 16th · “This isn’t Facebook,” users complain. But others are finding it a valuable place to talk about much more than work. · Shared by 35, including Forbes India, Deborah Blum, Josh Bersin ✨, davidabrock, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Nancy, Matt Navarra
The New York Times
For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine
The New York Times
7 min read · Sep 16th · Need to find a restaurant or figure out how to do something? Young people are turning to TikTok to search for answers. Google has noticed. · Shared by 67, including Nancy, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Sam Maule, C.C. Chapman (He/Him), Liliane Ferrari ™, Johannes Lenz, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, luis antónio santos
Guardian Tech
Gifs are cringe and for boomers, says Giphy in Meta takeover filing
Guardian Tech
5 min read · Sep 16th · Search engine adopted strategy with UK’s competition regulator, which is trying to block a $400m buyout by Facebook’s owner · Shared by 142, including Franziska Bluhm, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tactical Tech, Matt Navarra, Mark Little, Kevin Marks, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Ines Bieler, Robin Wigglesworth, Taylor Lorenz, Mathew Ingram, Lynne Murphy, Johannes Lenz
The Verge
Instagram’s finally working on protecting users from unsolicited nude photos
The Verge
2 min read · Sep 21st · The new user controls will be optional to use. · Shared by 50, including Matt Navarra, Dr. Alec Couros
Mashable
Finally, TikTok rolls out its dislike button for comments
Mashable
1 min read · Sep 23rd · It's a small step towards curating a more positive experience on the app. · Shared by 21
VICE
The Ultimate List of Celebs Sliding Into DMs, From Adam Levine to Salman Rushdie
VICE
4 min read · Sep 22nd · “Why did you unmatch me? It’s me.” · Shared by 22, including Matt Navarra
Mashable
Twitter's 'see less often' button is the ultimate internet placebo
Mashable
5 min read · Sep 23rd · Does it even do anything? · Shared by 25, including Matt Navarra, Merkstatt
The Verge
How platforms turn boring
The Verge
5 min read · Sep 22nd · How to tell when a platform is going bad. · Shared by 96, including Anna Grigoryan, Dominic Grzbielok, Karen K. Ho, Taylor Lorenz, Ines Bieler, John Herrman, Danny Goodwin, Josh Constine 📶🔥, Mathew Ingram, Josh Elman, Andreas Spiegler, Mac McCann
yalereview.org
Charlie Tyson: "Theater of Shame"
yalereview.org
~16 min read · Sep 23rd · What does the state of online shaming reveal about our democracy? · Shared by 112
The Baffler
Rattling the Cage
The Baffler
9 min read · Sep 21st · The nameless protagonist of Henry James’s 1898 novella “In the Cage” finds her counterpart in the modern-day social media manager. · Shared by 161, including Tactical Tech
The Hill
1 in 4 Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers
The Hill
2 min read · Aug 24th · Story at a glance The rise of social media has led to a new type of celebrity: the social media influencer. As the most popular influencers can make up to $1 million per sponsored Instagram post, p… · Shared by 80, including Matt Navarra, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Thomas Pleil
The Verge
This is Snap’s turnaround plan
The Verge
~17 min read · Sep 7th · Evan Spiegel isn’t going down without a fight. · Shared by 66, including Brian Morrissey, Eric Seufert, Matt Navarra
Futurism
Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026
Futurism
2 min read · Sep 18th · According to a new report from Europol, we have all the reason in the world to be extra vigilant about what we consume online. · Shared by 79, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nicolas Dengler
WIRED
YouTube’s ‘Dislike’ Button Doesn’t Do What You Think
WIRED
2 min read · Sep 20th · Users try to control the video platform’s algorithm by giving content a thumbs-down, but Mozilla researchers say it’s not so simple. · Shared by 35, including Marsha Collier, Backchannel
Pew Research Journalism
Social Media and News Fact Sheet
Pew Research Journalism
3 min read · Sep 20th · Digital news has become an important part of Americans’ news media diets, with social media playing a crucial role in news consumption. Today, half of U.S. adults get news at least sometimes from… · Shared by 132, including Matt Navarra, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Tarik ESSAADI, Alan See
HubSpot
What will social media look like in the future? Here’s What The Data Suggests
HubSpot
3 min read · Sep 16th · Wondering where social media is headed in the next few years? Here are our guesses based on recent Gen-Z data and new features from the top platforms. · Shared by 17, including Kelly Hungerford 🌻, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Matt Heinz, Robert Rose
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Greater Good
Instead of Pulling Out Your Phone, Let Your Mind Wander
Greater Good
2 min read · Aug 24th · When we're waiting, we often have the urge to distract ourselves—but a new study finds we’d enjoy doing nothing but think. · Shared by 487, including Scott Monty, Katja Evertz, Mike Taylor
driesdepoorter.be
The Follower
driesdepoorter.be
Sep 12th · Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken. Project by Dries Depoorter. · Shared by 254, including Kenneth Kalmer, Stefan Plattner, Massimo Banzi, Tactical Tech, Stef Walter, Dr. Alec Couros, Oliver Raduner, Bas Grasmayer, Paul Kedrosky, Ajit Pai, Konrad Weber
The Guardian
Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and mental health, study finds
The Guardian
2 min read · Sep 5th · The tendency to be glued to bad news can spark a ‘vicious cycle’ that interferes with our lives, researcher says · Shared by 248, including Tactical Tech, Dr. Alec Couros, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Matt Navarra
Real Life
Hold the Line — Real Life
Real Life
9 min read · Aug 15th · On the emergence of a folklore of screens · Shared by 221
Know Your Meme
Where Do Memes Come From? The Top Platforms From 2010-2022
Know Your Meme
20+ min read · Aug 30th · From the rise of TikTok to the Boomerification of Facebook, our data tells many important stories. We take a look back at the history of meme origins from the last decade-plus to infer how the… · Shared by 217, including Anna Grigoryan, Leni "Lee" Krsová 🎮⚔️, Paolo Pedercini, Matt Navarra, Alan See, Gisele Navarro, Tactical Tech, Brad Frost, Digg, Katja Evertz, Merkstatt
ProPublica
Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme
ProPublica
~19 min read · Aug 31st · A jeweler. A plastic surgeon. An OnlyFans Model. They and others received a blue check in likely the biggest Instagram verification scheme revealed to date. After ProPublica started asking questions,… · Shared by 197, including Matt Navarra, Mark Kaigwa, Marsha Collier, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Katja Evertz, Tactical Tech, Chaotic Goode, Merkstatt, Mathew Ingram
Bustle
Did TikTok Kill The BeautyTube Star?
Bustle
3 min read · Sep 1st · Beauty is currency and can enhance one’s social capital — and the way we consume digital beauty content is constantly changing. Here, a look at the evolution. · Shared by 171
The Baffler
Rattling the Cage
The Baffler
9 min read · Sep 21st · The nameless protagonist of Henry James’s 1898 novella “In the Cage” finds her counterpart in the modern-day social media manager. · Shared by 161, including Tactical Tech
themarysue.com
What is Witchcore? The Aesthetic Gaining Popularity on Social Media, Explained
themarysue.com
3 min read · Sep 11th · In 2020, Cottagecore (a celebration of cottage life/simple country living, lots of floral prints, and pastels) became something discussed on the mainstream news. A more recent trend focuses on the… · Shared by 155
Input
How one TikToker convinced folks he was an AI-generated character
Input
4 min read · Aug 30th · Shared by 147, including Taylor Lorenz, Gabriele
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Real Life
Influencer Creep — Real Life
Real Life
10 min read · Jun 9th · Self-documenting and self-branding are becoming basic to all forms of work · Shared by 1521, including Colin Wright, Paolo Pedercini, Kyle Chayka, tante, Taylor Lorenz, Leif & Direkt, Bailey Richardson
The Guardian
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
The Guardian
~14 min read · Jan 2nd · Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can · Shared by 1235, including Barry C Smith, Chris Skinner, Rebecca Roache, Marsha Collier, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Gerd Leonhard, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦, Jeff Jarvis, Patricia Churchland, Karsten Schmidt 🇺🇦, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Scott Monty, Sam Harris, Tiffany Shlain, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Richard Dawkins, Yanis Varoufakis, Jason Silva, Ben Miller
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite. · Shared by 1166, including fernand0, Parin Vachhani, Leo Polovets, Ryan Boren, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brent Summers, Tristan Harris, Kenneth Kalmer, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Matthias Sala, Nir Eyal, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, David Cant ~👷♂️, Courtney Bolton ★, Howard Getson, Matt Navarra, Rand Fishkin, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, hiten.eth
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race… · Shared by 1084, including Daniel Boos, Chris Messina, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Casey Smith, Bill Widmer, Mathew Ingram, Hugo Amsellem, Ryan Hoover, Tristan Harris, DHH, Jane, Gerd Leonhard, John Battelle, Josh Elman, Charlie Oliver, Rf, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦
The Atlantic
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
The Atlantic
Summary · 20+ min read · Apr 11th · It’s not just a phase. · Shared by 1063, including Yann LeCun, Brian Solis, Daniel Pink, zeldman, John Battelle, Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Haidt, Jeff Atwood, Niall Ferguson, Peter McCormack 🏴☠️, Paul Graham, William Gibson, Marsha Collier, John Burn-Murdoch, Anne Applebaum, Paul Kedrosky, Scott Galloway, Bill Gross, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Brian Stelter
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
WIRED
20+ min read · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all. · Shared by 1057, including Jane, Rodrigo Prior, Armindo Ferreira, Chris Messina, Azeem Azhar, OM, Adrienne Fichter, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Joan Lockwood, Gerd Leonhard, Frederic Filloux, Mathew Ingram, Zain Fathoni, Mark Kaigwa, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), grimm, Nick Lüthi, Howard Getson, Thomas Power, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer.
AIGA
Today’s Design Is Shaped by Likes. And That’s a Problem
AIGA
Jun 28th · Design has become intertwined with the most harmful dynamics of the social web · Shared by 976, including Stef Walter
SFGATE
TikTok influencers are leading Gen Z off a debt cliff
SFGATE
~11 min read · May 4th · “Buy now, pay later” services could very well be jeopardizing the financial futures... · Shared by 913, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Chaotic Goode, Taylor Lorenz, Eghosa Omoigui, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Katja Evertz, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Matt Navarra
Cloudflare
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
Cloudflare
2021-10-04 · Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on. · Shared by 913, including Nathan Yau, Barry Schwartz, briankrebs, John Maeda, Simo Ahava, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Kevin Roose, Kara Swisher, Ser Jeff Garzik, Chris Messina, Dirk von Gehlen, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, OM, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, Benedict Evans, Karen McGrane, Patricia Cammarata, Ouriel @ZenGo, Jeff Jarvis, Troy Hunt
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