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Social media fatigue
182 links saved from 2008 to 2026; 171 with a note, 140 in a Weekly Thing.
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- nytimes.com 10, om.co 10, medium.com 7, eff.org 6, theguardian.com 6
2026
2025
- Avoiding the toxic status loop
- Platform reality
- Are We Too Concerned About Social Media?
- Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think
- The Fundamental Humanity of Reddit
- Are We Self-Segregating on Social Media?
- EFF to Ninth Circuit: Young People Have a First Amendment Right to Use Social Media (and All of Its Features)
- Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
- We’re Shutting Down The Pika Pulse - Building Pika Out Loud
- What Spotify took from us by giving us everything
2024
- How YouTube Ate Podcasting
- Scripting News: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- EFF to Third Circuit: TikTok Has Section 230 Immunity for Video Recommendations
- TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show : NPR
- Beyond the link tax: journalism and the changing nature of the internet
- Judges Rule Big Tech's Free Ride on Section 230 Is Over
- Victory! Supreme Court Rules Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Decide What Speech to Carry, Free of State Mandates
- “Link In Bio” is a slow knife
- Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
- Maybe we all should be conspiracy theorists now…
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network
- METAstasis
- “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
- The end of the social network
- The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
2023
- I Fight For The Users
- Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused”
- C. Thi Nguyen: The Gamification of Public Discourse (Royal Institute of Philosophy)
- Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over It.
- Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
- Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
- We Don’t Need a New Twitter
- With X, it is Twitter R.I.P!
- The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit
- How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube
- Reddark
- How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
- cf #63: being mindful of vanity metrics
- To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech
- Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
- LinkedIn power users are turning to ghostwriters
- Twitter is dying
- The Unbearable Sameness of the Modern Web
- Podcast Overload
- Twitter to remove free API access in latest money making quest
- Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023)
2022
- Musk overload
- The promise of social media
- Protect Me From What I Want
- How China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’
- The Observation Deck » Twitter, when the wall came down
- Welcome to hell, Elon
- Social media firms ‘monetising misery’, says Molly Russell’s father after inquest
- Our Misguided Obsession with Twitter
- Everyone (including Elon) wants a better deal
- Keeping your feed relevant and productive
- Why I changed my mind about advertising
2021
- Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
- Why We’re Building A New Product To Change The Way We Read Online
- We’re ready to rip out the beating heart of the disinformation economy
- Willingness to look stupid
- The death of the newsfeed
- God made a social network
- What if Recommendation Algorithms Like Facebook’s Grappled Directly with Bad Content? by Dan Frankowski
- Why You Should Stop Reading News
- The Internet's Original Sin by Charlie Warzel
- 20 Reasons To Quit Social Media
- The Algorithm Tweaks Won't Save Us by Charlie Warzel
- Your likes, hearts, and flattering comments are bad for my brain
- They Have To Do This. You Don’t.
- Don't let Social Media Think for You
- Upvote Tracker
- How to Perform a Social Media Autopsy
- Sacha Baron Cohen Has a Message for Mark Zuckerberg
- Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole
- Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age
- The Revenge Of Retail
2020
- Twitter will hand @POTUS to Biden on Inauguration Day, even if Trump doesn’t concede
- How the Fairness Doctrine should apply to social networks
- As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter - David Hates Things
- How to Not Build a Social Network
- COVID Finances
- YouTube bans QAnon, other conspiracy content that targets individuals
- We Need to Talk About Talking About QAnon
- YouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories
- Living in a Conspiracy Nation
- Vicariously: Get out of your Twitter bubble and into someone else's
- Joanna Hoffman: Facebook is peddling 'an addictive drug called anger'
- Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
- Why do social networks focus on the wrong problem?
- The Underappreciated Impact of the Attention Redistribution Revolution - Study Hacks
- Ninth Circuit: Private Social Media Platforms Are Not Bound by the First Amendment
- Just get paid and our culture of lies
2019
- At age 13, I joined the alt-right, aided by Reddit and Google
- Read Sacha Baron Cohen's scathing attack on Facebook in full: 'greatest propaganda machine in history' | Technology
- It's time to ban all political ad targeting . . . everywhere
- I Quit Social Media for a Year and Nothing Magical Happened
- How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
- Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?
- The Problem With “Content”
- The Making of a YouTube Radical
- Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great - Study Hacks
- Olivia Laing: ‘I was hooked and my drug was Twitter’ | Technology
- Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
- Big Idea Famine
- Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day
- What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet – NewCo Shift
- Court: Politicians who block citizens on social media violate 1st Amendment
2018
- Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2018
- Can the Government Block Me on Twitter?: 2018 Year in Review
- When to put down the tools – Mike Monteiro
- I Thought the Web Would Stop Hate, Not Spread It
- Fake Followers Audit from SparkToro
- Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter?
- My own reasons for leaving Twitter
- Exclusive: Twitter is suspending millions of bots and fake accounts every day to fight disinformation
- Click ‘Delete’ to Save Your Soul
- Young people still love Twitter — as screenshots on Instagram
- Against Facebook
- Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet
- Be a Deletist
- Farewell Social Media
- Quitting Twitter
- Tristan Harris on how Facebook and Twitter bring out the worst in us
- Take the Power Back
- Twitter Quitter
- I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great
- ‘Never get high on your own supply’ – why social media bosses don’t use social media | Media
2017
- Lanier’s Social Medium Ultimatum
- Some thoughts on social networks | mathew's web site
- Sean Parker unloads on Facebook "exploiting" human weakness
- Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media has become a direct threat to democracy
- Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news
- Are You Using Social Media or Being Used By It? - Study Hacks
- Anatomy of a Moral Panic
- Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments
- I used to think social media was a force for good. Now the evidence says I was wrong | Matt Haig | Opinion
- You Are the Product
- Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation —Krebs on Security
- The James Damore Google manifesto is a toxic exercise in generalization
- Twitter users sue Donald Trump for excluding them
- Social Cooling - Big Data's unintended side effect
- There are bots. Look around.
- This Is Why You Hate Me
2016
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2012
- Xkcd: Instagram
- Ad networks are killing the Internet. My answer is Cringely 3.0
- Racist Teens Forced to Answer for Tweets About the 'n-----' President
- Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
- What If Social Networks Just Arent Profitable?
- How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down
- Sweep the Sleaze
- Twitter’s Secret History As the World’s Worst Tech or Media Business