Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost
Offline with Jon Favreau
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The Evolution of Social Networks
We spent a lot of time on this show talking about all the ways social media has been bad for us as individuals and as a society. You draw an interesting distinction between social networks, which is what we started with, and social media,. Can you talk about the difference and also sort of the evolution? Yeah. Well, first of all, social networks don't have anything to do with the internet or with computers or any specific technology. So that's social networking. A social media took that concept years later. And instead of the people that you were in contact with being the center of it, it was like the idea of connection got blown up. As many connections as possible became the new
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