Summary
We’re living through the end of something. Facebook is the site where your older family shares racist memes, Twitter seems only capable of talking about itself, and Instagram can’t compete with TikTok. What started with Friendster and MySpace, social media, once felt like a totalizing on the internet. Now it’s dying.
According to Motherboard writer Edward Ongweso Jr, social media isn’t dying. It’s already dead. So what monsters struggle now to be born?
Stories discussed in this episode:
At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born
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| 0:00.0 | Tannen. It's got the code. It's going to launch. |
| 0:10.3 | It's a unit system. I know this. |
| 0:14.6 | It's how all the files are the whole park. It tells her everything. |
| 0:18.6 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.3 | Eagle 1. The package he's uploading the virus. Eagle one. |
| 0:22.1 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello out there on the internet. |
| 0:26.4 | I am Matthew Galt, and this? |
| 0:28.6 | This is cyber? |
| 0:30.7 | We're living through the end of something. |
| 0:33.0 | Facebook is the site where your older family shares racist memes. |
| 0:36.0 | Twitter seems only capable of talking about |
| 0:37.7 | itself these days. In Instagram, it can't compete with TikTok. What started with Friendster and |
| 0:44.0 | MySpace, social media, once felt like a totalizing force on the internet. Now it's dying. According to |
| 0:51.4 | motherboard writer Edward Anguiso Jr., social media isn't dying. |
| 0:55.8 | It's dead. So what monster |
| 0:58.2 | now struggles to be born? Well, he's here with us today to talk about that. |
| 1:03.0 | Ed, thank you so much for coming onto the show again and kind of doing a |
| 1:06.0 | part two of our Facebook conversation from last week. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, no, really excited to come on and talk with you about this. |
| 1:13.7 | I am too. |
| 1:14.4 | I was really, I really loved the last talk we had. |
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