Are We Using the Internet the Same Way?

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i'm not quite my ordinary sarcastic self on platforms as i might ordinarily be, just i feel very awkward like promoting stuff with my own. But i have been splintering off into various kind of group chats and grip dians, and that's energizing in a way that i i haven't felt about social medium for a long time. And then the other thing that's really nice, am, you can kind of let it sit for a couple of days, and then maybe someone shows up if has something to say, and then you disappear. I t was just kind of casualo drop in. Maybe you remember, i'm gettin go to that masset for to morrow

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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