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Contemporary social media is broken.
The Attention-economy model is what messes with your brain. The system incentivizes for what attracts the most attention, not for what is most beneficial for the poster and/or society in general.
Snackable content. Brain junk food. We rot.
/ #AttentionEconomy #MediaCriticism #MassMedia #Advertising #AdvertisingSupportedMedia / #fz_thinkingOutLoud
@Wayves an irony though is that Internet-mediated social media is also the most cost-efficent global communications channel in existence; thus it should also be a global knowledge multiplier...
@FerdiZ You're right. Here we are having a discussion in spite of being on opposite sides of the planet. I guess the good comes with the bad.
@FerdiZ Another way for people to dumb themselves down.