The Business Model of Social Media

I try to never share things for the sake of outrage. I curate this and people send them to me. And so, I accept in there, but that's holding it up with a bit of levity, not just outrage. There are many things I don't comment on. Many fights I sit out. It's hard individually to push back against this. This is how it's a business model, for these platforms,. For the decline of traditional media and local media, everything's a competition for clicks. The system is now rigged to reward those bad choices.

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