why is social media not fun anymore?

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edited by Charlee Reiff

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➤ SOURCES
https://okwnews.com/news/lifestyle/he...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age by Ben Agger
Portraits in Life and Death (Intro) by Susan Sontag
https://mark.kerrigan.co/posts/2024/p...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the...
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/wild-fa...
   • Sincerity: Hollywood's Forgotten Currency  
   • Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?  
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/...
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions...
   • Watch Kamala Harris' viral "coconut tree" ...  
https://www.readloosey.com/p/have-we-...
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-toxic-i...
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f...
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/...
E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/m...
https://substack.com/inbox/post/15529...
https://embedded.substack.com/p/you-m...

0:00 - intro
3:36 - when social media was fun
15:18 - the algorithm
23:09 - the irony problem
35:59 - conclusion