What is social media, and what is the distinction, if any, between social media and social network sites/apps? I just want to see if there is consensus.
What is social media, and what is the distinction, if any, between social media and social network sites/apps? I just want to see if there is consensus.
Pointless take: Last Christmas is not a Christmas song. It’s a New Year’s song.
There’s a loneliness epidemic because a whole generation has grown up without Tom from Myspace automatically being their friend.
Cliches aren’t born; they develop from the abuse of repetition. I think that the speed and scale at which generative AI works will likely send certain phrases and constructs speeding into their second lives as cliches faster than we’ve ever experienced. The em-dash discourse was just the beginning.
My theory. All the people in the drug ads you see on TV exist in the same world. They’re in a horrible Truman Show style environment where they are being coerced into demonstrating positive effects of the drugs. They can’t not smile or they get moved to “the control group.”