Stop Looking At Each Other - Sherry Ning

You're lonely because you're overconnected (also, influencers are not your friends)

“I don’t want Big Tech to sell my data.” “I don’t want employers to stalk me.” Not wanting to be watched is a valid reason to be anti-social media. We often compare social media to Orwell’s surveillance state of 1984, but here’s what’s different about our telescreens: our screens do not exist to monitor us, but for us to monitor others. There is no totalitarian state behind our screens enforcing social order; instead, the screens turn us into the supervisors of each others’ behaviors. Share We turn into each other’s audience, judging from afar. We become each other’s data harvesters,…

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