I'm Off Facebook for a Couple of Years, and Then I Got It Back

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I was off facebook for, i would say, a couple of years, i think, and then i got it back. Because it's just like the way that you keep in touch with so many people, right? And it feels so difficult. It can almost feel like if you're not on there, you're being excluded from things that are happening. In that way, it becomes this platform that, like, everyone kind of has to have if you want to just be part of like, this social life thot.

Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss how our experience online has evolved over the past three decades, the class backgrounds of tech founders, how the AIDS crisis robbed us an important contribution to the early web, and whether COVID-19 will change how we use platforms in the future.

Joanne McNeil is the author of “Lurking: How a Person Became a User.” She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, WIRED, the Baffler, and more. Follow Joanne on Twitter as @jomc.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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