This quote from Seth Godin’s post, ‘Speaking up about what could be better‘ is right on point:
“Our social networks have turned us into unpaid factory workers, toiling in a giant system, one that pushes us to feel shame, to be in a hurry, to worry about nothing but the surface.”
If I asked you to upload all your photos and thoughts to this site (sethw.xyz), and told you I was going to use that content and activity to sell ads against it and make lots of money for myself, you’d probably walk away.
But that’s what we all do on social media. All our discussions make money for social media networks. Our event pages help pay for the health care of social media employees. Uploading vacation photos helps pay those six figure salaries.
Our time, our attention, our focus is shifted to the short term on social media, and when those sites shutter (and they will), we’ll be left with nothing.