I think we’re approaching a break point for social media. There’s a lot of discontent over Facebook and Twitter, and the question is...what’s next? There’s Gab, but Discord seems interesting and more organic.
This is how we are now. The human mind & conciousness are semi-fused into the machine matrix. You’re not just “you” anymore, you’re part of the collective— formed through image/response. The question is whether Twitter & Facebook do a MySpace & what the next iteration will be.
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from working with kids 15 and younger my general impression is that they are all 1. very aware of the pitfalls of dopamine traps, even though they express it in other words. 2. have had their "fill" with being an online pressence/having an online "face".
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I think the move is towards less centralization of content. the mainstream wont go full imageboard, but something new. I think the next big thing will be changing the "profile" idea/format, something you interact with more etherally.
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Given that we’re post-literate, anything that champions the image will probably be king. The limit isn’t really the technology (after all, this site is just an iteration of the chat rooms that existed from day 1 of the net), so much as hitting the tech-social sweet spot w/ a UI.
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Orwell had some effective good design ideas: There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler.
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Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a group of teenage girl posting beyonce gifs - forever.
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I think post-literate is fun by the way. Althought I would go with trans-literate myself
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Whether it’s fun or not, it’s how we are now. I’m not a reactionary who gets off on writing about how nice books smell. Mass literacy was a weird quirk of 19th-20th mass education & printing. In some ways, we’re back to the norm—superstitious peasants hyper stimulated by images.
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