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So­cial Media

TagLast edit: 13 Dec 2020 17:25 UTC by [Error communicating with LW2 server]

Social media are digital tools that let users share content with many others, quickly and easily. Prominent examples include Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and many others.

Social media is infamous for its tendency to polarize users, make them spend more time and attention than they intended, and otherwise hurt productivity.

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About So­cial Media

Elizabeth7 Dec 2021 0:40 UTC
154 points
19 comments10 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

An­nounce­ment: Real-time dis­cus­sions in a new Club­house com­mu­nity.

gianlucatruda7 Mar 2021 19:38 UTC
16 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Do a cost-benefit anal­y­sis of your tech­nol­ogy usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
184 points
54 comments13 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing the Twit­ter Pos­trat Scene

Jacob Falkovich5 Apr 2022 22:23 UTC
89 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

What’s the Deal with Elon Musk and Twit­ter?

Zvi7 Nov 2022 13:50 UTC
60 points
11 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

So­cial me­dia prob­a­bly not a deathtrap

eukaryote7 Oct 2017 3:54 UTC
5 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als about So­cial Media

Zvi22 Apr 2019 12:20 UTC
53 points
23 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why I Quit So­cial Media

sarahconstantin26 Sep 2017 0:58 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Whence the symp­toms of so­cial me­dia?

KatjaGrace27 Oct 2020 7:30 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

TikTok Recom­men­da­tion Al­gorithm Optimizations

Xodarap27 Mar 2020 1:03 UTC
12 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

The New Age of So­cial Engineering

VivaLaPanda7 Dec 2019 0:23 UTC
22 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

In Ad­di­tion to Rage­bait and Doomscrolling

mike_hawke3 Dec 2020 18:26 UTC
73 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Tour­ne­sol, YouTube and AI Risk

adamShimi12 Feb 2021 18:56 UTC
36 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Clubhouse

lsusr15 Mar 2021 3:38 UTC
41 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

So­cial host liability

CraigMichael9 May 2021 7:24 UTC
22 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Au­tore­gres­sive Propaganda

lsusr22 Aug 2021 2:18 UTC
25 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Ap­pren­tice­ship Online

Henrik Karlsson9 Oct 2021 13:50 UTC
48 points
18 comments11 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Try­ing Mastodon

jefftk8 Nov 2022 19:10 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Mastodon Link­ing Norms

jefftk10 Nov 2022 15:10 UTC
9 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some good Less­wrong-re­lated ac­counts or hash­tags on Mastodon that I should fol­low?

SpectrumDT5 Dec 2022 9:42 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Poli­tics is the Fun-Killer

Adam Zerner25 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC
28 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

The Chang­ing Face of Twitter

Zvi29 Mar 2023 17:50 UTC
16 points
1 comment26 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Per­sonal Ex­per­i­ment] Train­ing YouTube’s Algorithm

lsusr9 Jan 2020 9:04 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Against Face­book: The Stalking

Zvi16 Sep 2017 12:41 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Against Face­book: Com­par­i­son to Alter­na­tives and Call to Action

Zvi22 Apr 2017 16:44 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Against Facebook

Zvi22 Apr 2017 16:43 UTC
7 points
0 comments27 min readLW link

Don’t Use Face­book Blocking

Davis_Kingsley21 Apr 2020 15:50 UTC
2 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you use twit­ter for in­tel­lec­tual en­gage­ment? Do you like it?

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:35 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much time do you spend on twit­ter?

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:41 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Link: How Com­mu­nity Feed­back Shapes User Behavior

Tyrrell_McAllister17 Sep 2014 13:49 UTC
7 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Cur­rent Law Pro­posed to al­low com­pe­ti­tion in So­cial Media

jmh23 Oct 2019 13:13 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing the news feed

paulfchristiano1 Dec 2016 23:23 UTC
20 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Livestream­ing mon­eti­sa­tion mod­els aka What do cam­girls have in com­mon with Twitch stream­ers?

characteristics19 Sep 2020 18:57 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(lillianli.substack.com)

But what kinds of pup­pets are we?

KatjaGrace26 Oct 2020 8:40 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Youtube chan­nel de­voted to the art of rationality

MrMind15 Dec 2017 11:42 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Mean­ing wars

Elo14 Dec 2017 23:17 UTC
11 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

In Defense of Twit­ter’s De­ci­sion to Ban Trump

ragintumbleweed11 Jan 2021 18:08 UTC
4 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

How to solve the ar­gu­ment about what the al­gorithm should do

Yoav Ravid15 Jan 2021 6:08 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the most pow­er­ful lo­tuses?

ForensicOceanography20 Feb 2021 19:05 UTC
12 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspax20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC
101 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

So­cial me­dia: de­signed to be bad for you & for society

matto24 Jul 2021 18:59 UTC
29 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Does Di­verse News De­crease Po­lariza­tion?

jsteinhardt11 Sep 2021 2:30 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin Spiegel10 Oct 2021 5:19 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Less Wrong on Twitter

Grognor22 Jun 2012 15:51 UTC
32 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Think­ing About Mastodon

jefftk7 Nov 2022 19:40 UTC
31 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Digi­tal Molec­u­lar Assem­blers: What syn­thetic me­dia/​gen­er­a­tive AI ac­tu­ally rep­re­sents, and where I think it’s going

Yuli_Ban28 Feb 2023 14:03 UTC
26 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

The Kids are Not Okay

Zvi8 Mar 2023 13:30 UTC
81 points
43 comments32 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Over­ton’s Basilisk

Alex Beyman15 Mar 2023 21:54 UTC
−20 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Seek­ing Ad­vice on Rais­ing AI X-Risk Aware­ness on So­cial Media

ViktorThink24 Mar 2023 22:25 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
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