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The Social Media Trap - David Perell

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David explores how social media traps us into feeling watched and judged. Read here.

This essay was originally shared in my weekly Monday Musings Newsletter . People change their behavior when they know they’re being watched. And on social media, somebody can always look at you. We used to hand-write personal thoughts in our diaries. Even when we dropped our pens and spoke out loud, our thoughts never reached an audience bigger than the friends in our kitchen at Thanksgiving dinner. Even our peers who wanted to keep tabs on us weren’t able to track our every career decision like they can today. Eugene Wei , the former director of video for Oculus VR at Facebook, says tha

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