Somehow I missed this when it first came out (not very long ago), but here ’tis: an amazing amalgam of statistics that even surprised me, and I thought I was halfway hip, technology-wise…
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the one that really got me was that very first thing about “it’s easier than ever to reach a large audience, but harder than ever to really connect with it.” and not just potential audiences, but any kind of genuine human contact. my whole reaction to the media/technology convergence the video describes over the last several years has actually been to retreat further away from it – i think on some instinctual level i sensed what passes for “human contact” in the new techno-collective is actually a hindrance to making a Real Connection with someone. of course nowadays a lot of everything in existence that passes for “normal” and “genuine” is in fact quite the opposite – the human collective is psychotic and delusional, but thinks hey everything’s just fine and what are you complaining about anyway are you some kind of weirdo we’d better lock you up – for your own good, of course….
Most of the attempts at connection on social media, so far as I can tell, are attempts at selling things. I have friends who I communicate with online. If I were younger, I might be looking for more. But this isn’t most of the traffic: most of the traffic is failed attempts at selling: 57 million channels and nothing on.
Croak!
I pretty much agree with both of you. Selling things, ultimately, yes…