Why do we use social media? - by Max Read - Read Max

Examining Jon Haidt and Tyler Cowen’s conversation about social media, and whether or not A.I. will reduce screen time; a follow-up to last week’s post on “Substackism” with an eye to the “intellectual dark web.” Another reminder: Read Max (and, basically, my whole life) is funded entirely out of the pockets of paying subscribers. I don’t take advertisements or sponsorships; my freelance income is pretty limited. Subscription is about the price of one beer or one coffee, or, like, one sorta cheap sandwich (?) a month; if any of the 150 or so weekly emails I’ve written over the past two years have made you smile or laugh or do the Wee-Bey GIF thing, please consider signing up. Subscribers get access to the whole archive; the weekly roundup of book, movie, and music recommendations (usually another 2,000 or so words of writing); and the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that comes with supporting writing that doesn’t make you want to die. Jonathan Haidt has a new book out called T

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