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Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost

Offline with Jon Favreau

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What if Your Message Just Evaporates?

There's a lot of ideas that haven't been explored. What if your message is just timed out? They could do so temporally, but it reaches a certain number and that's just enough. Maybe the amount of connections that we have should be constrained. There's really simple things that can be done. I tried out this app which works like snail mail. You get a delivery once a day as if the postman is coming. It doesn't really have a future as a mass market product, but as an experiment, it gives us a sense of what's possible. Just remind them social media is here to stay. And all of these incumbents were once seen as disruptors,

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