How Your Social Media Feeds and Habits Have Changed

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to share if what they see on the various social media platforms has changed, and how what they post (if they do at all!) has in turn changed.

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0:00.0	Brian Lair on WNYC, we're going to close out today in our last 15 minutes or so with a call in
0:13.4	on how your use of social media is changing as social media becomes more commercial
0:19.9	and less personal.
0:21.7	212-433 WNYC, 433-9-6-92.
0:28.2	How your use of social media is changing.
0:30.6	It may just be that you're using it less,
0:33.3	as social media becomes more commercial and less personal.
0:36.7	Why do we ask?
0:38.8	Well, earlier this month,
0:45.5	New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chekker published a piece titled, Are You Experiencing? Posting on We?
0:52.6	Posting on We. And it highlighted how far social media has drifted from its original intent.
0:55.4	Remember when Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, were new to everybody's lives,
0:56.8	these platforms were sold to us as a means
0:59.2	to connect with friends and family, right?
1:02.2	Maybe especially Facebook, but these others as well.
1:06.3	Perhaps you would encounter an old classmate
1:08.8	that you lost contact with,
1:10.1	or a childhood friend who moved
1:12.3	across the country or just keep up with your relatives who didn't live around the block.
1:17.4	Our feeds were filled with people we knew in real life sharing even maybe mundane parts of the
1:23.2	day, right?
1:24.2	I look at a great sandwich I made, right?
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