Social networks become popular because they figure out some novel Mechanic that gets us all to share. But like chewing gum those things lose their flavor and people start falling away. These companies just have to continuously pull rabbit After rabbit out of a hat just in order to keep our attention.
If you think Instagram sucks now, it’s by design. Vox's Rebecca Jennings and Platformer's Casey Newton explain.
This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Hady Mawajdeh and Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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