BONUS: Chat, Does Anyone Like Social Media?
5/7/202620 min
As journalists, we are pretty online. Terminally online. Our screen time apps? Let’s not go there…
Now our social media feeds are likely different from many of yours. So we wanted to ask all of you, who probably lead less online lives, what you love, hate, and how you balance your online from your IRL. And you all had so much interesting stuff to share.
Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)
Photo: Tony Wang
Additional music by Audio Network
Further Reading:
- Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — Penguin Random House
- Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Flatiron Books
- Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop — Wired
- LinkedIn Lunatics Subreddit — Reddit
- The #BLM Protests Are Not Your Aesthetic — Story Factory
- mastodon explained in only a few sentences - for a newbie — Reddit
- People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. (Actual title is “My first impressions of web3”) — Moxie Marlinspike (Founder of Signal)
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Sam Konnert· Host0:03
[upbeat music] Hey, it's Sam Connard, and today on Off the Record, we are talking about social media. We're talking about the good kind, we're talking about the bad kind, and we are talking about the devastating kind.
Speaker 20:21
These people are intent on destroying our democracy.
Speaker 30:25
Everything is just AI-generated. That's all it is now.
Speaker 40:29
But I also totally get why Mastodon just doesn't work for most people.
Speaker 00:34
People are sending me videos about creatine, and I'm like, "I don't even really know what that is."
Speaker 40:38
You know how the kids start watching the same YouTube creators, and then they just start telling the same jokes? Kinda lost that small town identity thing.
Sam Konnert· Host0:46
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