Parasocial Media - by Gonzalo Nuñez - A Work in Progress

Nobody on the internet actually cares about you. I’m sorry.

Welcome to A Work in Progress. This is not a “newsletter”—I do not publish on a regular cadence or about any particular topic; sometimes I write essays and sometimes I write poems. If you’re reading this because you are a subscriber, thank you for following along. I’m thinking about social media, specifically the foundational invariants in the design of our online social environments. I think some of these are terrible, maybe even evil. They are in some ways the original sins of social media, and I’m not sure what it is that we can do about them. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,…

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