But yeah, Jay's looking at me through the glass and I'm like, no, you go, man. You're in charge.

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Hello, I'm Kimberly Adams.

Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us.

I'm Kyle Rizdahl. Thanks for joining us on this first Tuesday for us of 2024.

It is the 9th of January today. We're talking about the state of social media what the future might hold because

Holy cow, who knows?

Oh yeah, well there was this idea that you know the internet was just one big thing and we were all going to be together on the internet but not so.

So now it's this idea that the internet has become so fragmented that it's hard really to tell

what's going on on the web what's going on on the web yes which might be a symptom maybe

of the end of social media as we know it which is something we've kind of been talking about as we watched the

steady destruction of the entity formerly known as Twitter over the last year or so. Anyway, here to break

this down and talk about the broader implications of this is Charlie Warsle

who is a staff writer at the Atlantic. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.

So what do you think?

Is social media as we know it dying?

Or as we knew it, I guess, past tense if it is dying?

I think it is as we knew it. that's not to say that the internet isn't getting

larger every day in fact you and I all of us we every day we live on the largest version of you know connected humanity that has

ever existed it's it's kind of amazing in that in that regard and so things are getting

bigger there is more content there is is, you know, there are more

subcultures and niches, memes, whatever happening and proliferating every

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