Why Matthew Quit Social Media

As journalists, we are pretty online. Terminally online. Our screen time apps? Let’s not go there…

Now our social media feeds are likely different from many of yours. So we wanted to ask all of you, who probably lead less online lives, what you love, hate, and how you balance your online from your IRL. And you all had so much interesting stuff to share.

Host: Sam Konnert

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)

Photo: Tony Wang

Additional music by Audio Network

Further Reading:

• Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — Penguin Random House
• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Flatiron Books
• Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop — Wired
• LinkedIn Lunatics Subreddit — Reddit
• The #BLM Protests Are Not Your Aesthetic — Story Factory
• mastodon explained in only a few sentences - for a newbie — Reddit
• People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. (Actual title is “My first impressions of web3”) — Moxie Marlinspike (Founder of Signal)

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