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it's monday november 7th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, I clearly only have one thing on my mind, and that's Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. But that's not really what I want to talk about. Instead, I want to discuss how social media has changed us, how we might finally be

approaching a tipping point and how we use it, and the ways in which our devices play just as

larger role as the algorithms. With apologies for the length of today's show, here's

some cool stuff for your ride home.

Everyone's talking about Twitter right now, as Elon Musk's takeover seems to touch nearly

every sector, from business and finance to tech, politics, entertainment, social justice,

and more. It's a fascinating development to watch. I mean, parts of it,

if you compartmentalize, are just funny. But on a larger scale, in context with the struggles that

other major social media platforms are also experiencing and the overall discourse around it,

I keep feeling like some of the social media trends and this sort of tipping point that I and others have been anticipating for years is finally maybe happening.

Both in ways we've predicted and in ways we can't yet see.

But it definitely feels like something is happening.

Consumer investment partner Justine Moore and internet culture

writer Ryan Broderick are calling it the unbundling, predicting it that we could be on the precipice

of social media splintering into many smaller platforms. As Moore tweeted, instead of using one

platform for all of your needs, people will have one site that they

use for events, one that they use for private social groups, one for personal CRM, like tracking

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