"... the disintermediation of social media didn’t really put the power in the hands of individuals. Instead, it replaced the old intermediaries with new ones: Google, Facebook, Twitter, many others."

#IanBogost, 2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

So it wasn't... actually... disintermediation, was it Ian. Which completely blows your whole thesis out of the water.

"... we also received a toxic dump of garbage."

#IanBogost, 2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

Including this article, which psychologises the net and blames the problems caused by #DataFarming on digital communication in general. Classic "get off my lawn".

Dunbar was an anthropologist, not a neuroanatomy researcher, and Dunbar's Number was an ethnographical observation, not a biological one.

"Your social life has a biological limit: 150. That’s the number—Dunbar’s number, proposed by the British psychologist Robin Dunbar three decades ago—of people with whom you can have meaningful relationships."

#IanBogost, 2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

That's your opening? Not off too a great start there Ian.

#DunbarsNumber

"[In 2006] some might have had a blog, but people ordinarily posted only to small, closed online networks. That’s how Facebook still worked, and LinkedIn too, and Orkut, may it rest in peace. Social networks were initially designed around communities of trust. Twitter and then Instagram are to blame for expanding the act of posting to the world."

#IanBogost

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-x-rebrand-juvenile-internet-style/674875/

ramble, a dozen or so paragraphs, discretion advised
https://pdbowman.studio/quareidfaciam/marketplace/

#blog #BrianMorrissey #IanBogost