How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-the-internet-turned-us-into-content-machines
The rise of social networks in the twenty-tens made this model only more dominant. Our digital posting became concentrated on a few all-encompassing platforms, which relied increasingly on algorithmic feeds. The result for users was more exposure but a loss of agency. We generated content for free, and then Facebook mined it for profit.