i feel like there’s a kind of irony to be making a post in an online forum around a book about doing nothing, which encourages its readers to not feed into social media, to not provide more fuel for the fire so to speak. anyway—

there’s a saying about how “if something is free, then you are the product.” in any kind of social platform (yes, even pagebound), we the users, are the product. we are the ones who are creating the content that will engage other users. if there are no users, there is no product, there is no conflict, there is no anxiety, and so on and so forth.

what started as a way to connect people, has turned into an advertising machine. as we use these platforms, we are giving ourselves and our time to these companies, for free, and in turn, we get ads, anxiety, our lives get sucked away from us before we realize it because endless scrolling is a thing. and as people get more and more wrapped up in these virtual realities, we get more and more divided.

bonkers shit huh