I struggle with all of this… I often like ditching social media but will really miss internet friends. I know one can only cultivate so many friendships though and maybe I need to focus more locally and on a few internet friends who I already talk to off social media. I enjoy Gabriel Kahane’s music and he has a lot of social media musings in his newsletter - and maybe elsewhere too if you Google around for his writing? Also I’m reading the book Four Thousand Weeks, as in the average lifespan is 4000 weeks and what do you want so with it?! And where does social media fit into that.
Time and focus for sure!! Maybe social media but more curated? But I know the algorithm punishes you for interacting with less content. I wonder what social media without the algorithm would look like both from the consumer and producer perspectives.
I’m struggling with this balance as well. I especially find it difficult to fuel the attention wars. I don’t know a better way! But I do know that the quality of my interactions have suffered
I hadnt even considered quality over quantity. I am now considering what that might look like in a social media context. Could we divide topics into different streams so i could decide how much time to dedicate to political debate versus friend's kid pictures? Quilts versus anarchist graffiti? If i could turn one topic off for a while and come back to it, would that allow me to communicate with friends but not get pulled into the rabbit hole?
I struggle with all of this… I often like ditching social media but will really miss internet friends. I know one can only cultivate so many friendships though and maybe I need to focus more locally and on a few internet friends who I already talk to off social media. I enjoy Gabriel Kahane’s music and he has a lot of social media musings in his newsletter - and maybe elsewhere too if you Google around for his writing? Also I’m reading the book Four Thousand Weeks, as in the average lifespan is 4000 weeks and what do you want so with it?! And where does social media fit into that.
Time and focus for sure!! Maybe social media but more curated? But I know the algorithm punishes you for interacting with less content. I wonder what social media without the algorithm would look like both from the consumer and producer perspectives.
I’m struggling with this balance as well. I especially find it difficult to fuel the attention wars. I don’t know a better way! But I do know that the quality of my interactions have suffered
I hadnt even considered quality over quantity. I am now considering what that might look like in a social media context. Could we divide topics into different streams so i could decide how much time to dedicate to political debate versus friend's kid pictures? Quilts versus anarchist graffiti? If i could turn one topic off for a while and come back to it, would that allow me to communicate with friends but not get pulled into the rabbit hole?