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"The explosion of the personality into multiple internet selves has opened up many people, including myself, to a lot of heartache. Self-dissipation becomes self-dissatisfaction. I spent years scattering myself into personality fragments on many different websites until I couldn't locate my whole self anywhere. These personality fragments became deeply embedded into distant servers. I felt that my persona had expanded out beyond my reach or control. The internet can contain that expanded personality, but that personality belongs to the internet and is not a part of your own body. You cannot possibly be ready to back up who you are on the internet with your own body because that internet self is not your body - its the internet's body. It takes work to accept that your personality is actually your own body. It takes language, all your senses, the repeated use of conceptual tools, teachers, rituals, failures, and some serious discipline to grow the self that is limited to your body. With any growth comes the possibility of dysfunction through dissipation. Our challenge today is to gather up those internet fragments and align them into a whole individual."

~ Kev Bewersdorf (http://extinct.ly/participants/#kev-bewersdorf)

This must be our new design mantra: There when you need it, invisible when you don’t. It would be much better than what we believe today: There when you need it, incessantly begging you to come back when you don’t.

What if all the software we used was made by people who love us?

The vibe of tumblr with organization of Pinterest

Can we imagine new models of participating in digital public spaces that aren’t fueled by scarcity, but other kinds of encoded values?

I was also learning about color psychology and realized that there's a reason why the interface on these platforms is blue, like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Blue is a very welcoming calming color. It's the color of the sky, the color of the sea. We're evolved to be soothed by blue tones. Meanwhile what color are notifications?

Where attention goes, the algorithm flows.

a day of no social media
a day of no social media
Unwalled Garden 🌱 Digital Garden
Unwalled Garden 🌱 Digital Garden

Creators are compelled to seek the broadest possible audiences and to create content that attracts advertisers. This business model—or lack thereof—has a profound impact on which creators can make a living and what they create (incentivizing viral, attention-grabbing, and aspirational content, while disincentivizing niche, in-depth content).