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But several watchdog groups say the agency has done little in terms of enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are laws that say what influencers and companies can and cannot do,\" Patten says. \"Unfortunately, the FTC does not have the resources to police social media platforms to the extent necessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FTC spokesperson referred us to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking\">the agency's guidelines\u003c/a>, which say if people are getting paid to promote, \"then a disclosure is appropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BunFo8fnjwX/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altman is diligent about using those hashtags. She loves what she does and sees it as a business, but she doesn't necessarily want to be a social media celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With social media being so integrated into our everyday lives, we have this unique opportunity that I don't think anyone has ever had before where we can each be our own brand,\" Altman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, the very idea of everyday people becoming brands sounds like some nightmare capitalist dystopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saleem Alhabash, who teaches public relations and social media at Michigan State University, says there are bigger implications to this. When the lines between what is real life and what is marketing get blurred, it changes people's behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You always need to be doing something exciting,\" Alhabash says. \"Taking pictures of your food, taking pictures of the sunset. Where it becomes so important for people to be liked and appreciated, that they have to live another person's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many people, he wonders: What are we buying into when we're all trying to sell something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Instagram+Advertising%3A+Do+You+Know+It%2C+When+You+See+It%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"Micro-influencers\" work with big companies to sell products on social media. Consumer groups are increasingly concerned that many posts on Instagram and platforms aren't clearly marked as ads.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1561450187,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":745},"headData":{"title":"Instagram Advertising: Do You Know It, When You See It? | KQED","description":""Micro-influencers" work with big companies to sell products on social media. Consumer groups are increasingly concerned that many posts on Instagram and platforms aren't clearly marked as ads.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112536 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112536","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/06/25/instagram-advertising-do-you-know-it-when-you-see-it/","disqusTitle":"Instagram Advertising: Do You Know It, When You See It?","nprImageCredit":"Thomas White","nprByline":"Jasmine Garsd","nprImageAgency":"Reuters","nprStoryId":"734747462","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=734747462&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/24/734747462/instagram-advertising-do-you-know-it-when-you-see-it?ft=nprml&f=734747462","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:16:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:43:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:24:09 -0400","path":"/pop/112536/instagram-advertising-do-you-know-it-when-you-see-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the photograph, Gretchen Altman is smiling, leaning back casually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BwX5kdNA6dy/\">a cup of coffee in hand\u003c/a>—Hills Bros. Coffee, to be precise. It looks like a candid shot, but if you hit like, leave a comment, and tag a friend, you can get three different blends of brew, for free.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BwX5kdNA6dy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You've heard of influencers—social media celebrities with massive followings, who get paid to affect consumer tastes. Kim Kardashian, perhaps the most recognizable name in influencing, has more than 140 million Instagram followers and reportedly gets paid \u003ca href=\"https://www.maxim.com/news/kim-kardashian-makes-1-million-per-instagram-post-2019-5\">up to $1 million per post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Altman is part of a growing trend of \"micro-influencers.\" She has a small following—around 6,000 on Instagram. Her going rate is $300 to $800 to promote something, which makes her much more affordable than a Kardashian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Altman does some posts in exchange for free goods, she says, as long as it's stuff she believes in. All this hasn't stopped her from working with major companies like Verizon or Walgreens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altman says that as a micro-influencer she has a much more intimate relationship with her followers than a big social media star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm just living a normal life and people relate to that,\" she says. \"They just feel like I'm a friend of theirs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it works, says Bonnie Patten, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.truthinadvertising.org/\">Truth In Advertising\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that focuses on protecting consumers from deceptive ads and marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consumers are very apt to buy things that they see being promoted on social media—especially by people they feel they have some authentic natural connection with,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this intimate relationship worries Patten and consumer rights groups. Several \u003ca href=\"https://contently.com/2015/09/08/article-or-ad-when-it-comes-to-native-no-one-knows/\">recent studies\u003c/a> have \u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/in-the-media/students-have-dismaying-inability-tell-fake-news-real-study-finds-quotes-sam-wineburg\">found that young audiences\u003c/a> are largely unable to understand when something is sponsored content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, it's clear. When a big star like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621149796/this-is-a-moment-honey-queer-eye-gurus-jonathan-and-antoni-on-the-show-s-magic\">Jonathan Van Ness\u003c/a>, of Netflix's \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>, takes to Instagram to rave \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/ByVFs7egPUE/\">about toilet paper\u003c/a>, the assumption is he's probably getting paid to do so. And Van Ness's posts are clearly labeled as ads, with the caption #advertisement or #sponsoredcontent.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"ByVFs7egPUE"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>But what happens when an everyday person with just a couple thousand followers takes to social media to extol the virtues of a product? The motivations are not so clear cut. \"The problem with a lot of these social media posts is that you don't know whether it's an ad or not,\" Patten says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants transparency in social media advertising. Whether it's that nutritional shake, or that tooth whitener that will make you look like a Cheshire Cat, Patten wants influencers to be clear that they are getting paid to recommend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, consumer advocates say the buck stops with the Federal Trade Commission. But several watchdog groups say the agency has done little in terms of enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are laws that say what influencers and companies can and cannot do,\" Patten says. \"Unfortunately, the FTC does not have the resources to police social media platforms to the extent necessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FTC spokesperson referred us to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking\">the agency's guidelines\u003c/a>, which say if people are getting paid to promote, \"then a disclosure is appropriate.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BunFo8fnjwX"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Altman is diligent about using those hashtags. She loves what she does and sees it as a business, but she doesn't necessarily want to be a social media celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With social media being so integrated into our everyday lives, we have this unique opportunity that I don't think anyone has ever had before where we can each be our own brand,\" Altman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, the very idea of everyday people becoming brands sounds like some nightmare capitalist dystopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saleem Alhabash, who teaches public relations and social media at Michigan State University, says there are bigger implications to this. When the lines between what is real life and what is marketing get blurred, it changes people's behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You always need to be doing something exciting,\" Alhabash says. \"Taking pictures of your food, taking pictures of the sunset. Where it becomes so important for people to be liked and appreciated, that they have to live another person's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many people, he wonders: What are we buying into when we're all trying to sell something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Instagram+Advertising%3A+Do+You+Know+It%2C+When+You+See+It%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112536/instagram-advertising-do-you-know-it-when-you-see-it","authors":["byline_pop_112536"],"categories":["pop_5"],"tags":["pop_3525","pop_363","pop_1184"],"featImg":"pop_112539","label":"pop"},"pop_103401":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_103401","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"103401","score":null,"sort":[1525291506000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-americas-love-of-facebook-just-temporary-insanity","title":"Is America's Love of Facebook Just Temporary Insanity?","publishDate":1525291506,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/10/599808766/i-m-responsible-for-what-happens-at-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-will-tell-senate\">grilled on Capitol Hill\u003c/a> last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him whether his company faces any real competition: \"If I buy a Ford, and it doesn't work well, and I don't like it, I can buy a Chevy. If I'm upset with Facebook, what's the equivalent product that I can go sign up for?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZNqZxVt1g4\">Zuckerberg replied\u003c/a> that many companies offer a version of some of the services that Facebook does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't think you have a monopoly?\" Graham asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It certainly doesn't feel like that to me,\" Zuckerberg answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For almost as long as people have been using Facebook, people have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595791340/will-facebooks-cambridge-analytica-scandal-actually-cause-users-to-delete-the-ap\">talking about quitting Facebook\u003c/a>. The reasons tend to ebb and flow, depending on whether concerns about privacy, democracy or mental health are grabbing the headlines that week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reasons for staying remain pretty much the same: All our friends are here, and where would we go instead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all its ubiquity, Facebook is only 14 years old, and just because it's dominant now doesn't mean it always will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all the evident problems with Facebook's current design, I began to wonder: What might a better social network look like? And why aren't we on it yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The best parts of Facebook\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really think Facebook is destructive, so I've been doing that thought experiment pretty often,\" says mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil. She is the author of \u003cem>Weapons of Math Destruction\u003c/em>, a book about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/26/580617998/cathy-oneil-do-algorithms-perpetuate-human-bias\">the potentially dangerous consequences of algorithms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She imagines the next social network as having the best parts of Facebook, without the worst parts: \"Basically a town square where people can interact. They can keep up with each other, from their high school friends or their grandmothers ... but without sort of commercial predatory aspect of Facebook.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her network would have a moderator curating the conversation, and it would be a nonprofit, without tailored advertising. But she doesn't want the government to run the system, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people have reasonable concerns about who owns their data even if it's not consumer data,\" she says. \"Even if it's just 'Who are my friends?' If that is all owned by the government and centralized — that's a problem in itself. That's exactly the kind of problem that we worry about when we hear about like the NSA having access to the metadata around our phone calls.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A decentralized model\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. He also thinks the corporate, monopolistic structure of Facebook is worth rethinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Facebook has an awful lot of power by virtue of the fact that you have a single company making decisions for about 2 billion people all around the world,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerman says the next iteration of social networks could be decentralized, instead of run by one company. One example of this is a network that already exists, called \u003ca href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/\">Mastodon\u003c/a>. It looks like Twitter, but it's open source: Anyone can create their own community, hosted on their own server, with their own rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's lots of little Mastodon servers that have anywhere from a few hundred to a few tens of thousands of people on one another,\" he explains. \"But they confederate: You can share information between those servers.\" And while the service doesn't have tons of users so far, Zuckerman says the architecture seems sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103405\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The algorithm\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another aspect of Facebook that is ripe for reinvention is the algorithm that sits behind the news feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't really have control over the algorithms that sort our information and choose what we see or don't see,\" says Zuckerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his MIT colleagues have built an experimental platform called \u003ca href=\"https://gobo.social/\">Gobo\u003c/a>, which allows users to tinker with the algorithms on your Facebook and Twitter feeds as you see fit – so they can get more news and less entertainment, or filter for more civil content and less rude content. They can also change the balance of men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you can say things like 'I'd like to hear from more women in my feed,' 'Mute all the men!' \" Zuckerman explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neil also sees major problems with Facebook's algorithm, which she says \"privileges outrage.\" In her ideal social network, the data scientists would design algorithms \"to optimize to civil disagreement, and possibly even truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The thought experiment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's both fun, and tricky, to think about what a better social network looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should it be \u003ca href=\"https://frontporchforum.com/\">bounded by geography\u003c/a>, so it's easier to meet your neighbors? Or is it a place to meet far-flung \u003ca href=\"https://www.ravelry.com/about\">kindred spirits\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you use your real name or do you keep personal data out of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you pay to use it, or maybe it pays \u003cem>you \u003c/em>to use it. And instead of being owned by a corporation, what if it were \u003ca href=\"https://www.inc.com/business-insider/twitter-shareholder-cooperative-user-owned-jack-dorsey.html\">run as a cooperative\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We might be better off if we didn't rely on one social network to do so many things, Zuckerman says. \"We might choose to have a bunch of different networks and figure out how to link them together. It's a bit crazy that we have one social network that tries to do everything. Imagine that we had one website that tried to do everything. We had those for a while — they were called portals. and they didn't go very well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of American adults \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-in-2018/\">use Facebook\u003c/a>, and three-quarters of those use it every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the network effect — that is, you want to go where your friends already are — it can be hard for a new social network to take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Zuckerman says that when other, innovative networks have threatened Facebook's dominance — it simply copied them, \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/16/to-clone-or-not-to-clone/\">as it did with Snapchat\u003c/a>, or it bought them, as it did with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/150372288/instagram-sells-for-1-billion-despite-no-revenue\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/02/20/279987745/facebook-to-buy-whatsapp-message-service\">WhatsApp\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trick is right now Facebook has a quite effective monopoly,\" he says. \"So one possibility on this could be to try to constrain Facebook from swallowing other competitors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the network effect can cut both ways. If my friends start leaving the network, it'll be easier for me to leave, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neil says she can imagine a number of scenarios in which a real alternative to Facebook emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such scenario is where people simply lose interest — that all of this \"was kind of temporary insanity that we all went through where we wanted to do this in the first place,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are indications that \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/16957546/facebook-time-spent-decline-mark-zuckerberg-explanation-q4-earnings-2018\">people are spending less time\u003c/a> on Facebook – but that probably doesn't matter much if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-10/instagram-looks-like-facebook-s-best-hope\">simply migrate to Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And O'Neil notes that the fate of our social networks also depends on where in the world we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the worst problems with Facebook are happening in other countries,\" she says. \"But in terms of the United States — I can imagine it just not lasting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=As+Facebook+Shows+Its+Flaws%2C+What+Might+A+Better+Social+Network+Look+Like%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Experts are already designing the next social networks—and they look a lot different.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1525284326,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1203},"headData":{"title":"Is America's Love of Facebook Just Temporary Insanity? | KQED","description":"Experts are already designing the next social networks—and they look a lot different.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"103401 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=103401","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/05/02/is-americas-love-of-facebook-just-temporary-insanity/","disqusTitle":"Is America's Love of Facebook Just Temporary Insanity?","nprByline":"Laurel Wamsley","nprImageAgency":"Chris Nickels for NPR","nprStoryId":"607361849","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=607361849&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/01/607361849/as-facebook-shows-its-flaws-what-might-a-better-social-network-look-like?ft=nprml&f=607361849","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 01 May 2018 14:34:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 01 May 2018 11:34:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 01 May 2018 14:34:52 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2018/05/20180501_me_designing_a_better_facebook.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1019&d=278&story=607361849&ft=nprml&f=607361849","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1607381812-37d745.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1019&d=278&story=607361849&ft=nprml&f=607361849","path":"/pop/103401/is-americas-love-of-facebook-just-temporary-insanity","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2018/05/20180501_me_designing_a_better_facebook.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1019&d=278&story=607361849&ft=nprml&f=607361849","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/10/599808766/i-m-responsible-for-what-happens-at-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-will-tell-senate\">grilled on Capitol Hill\u003c/a> last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him whether his company faces any real competition: \"If I buy a Ford, and it doesn't work well, and I don't like it, I can buy a Chevy. If I'm upset with Facebook, what's the equivalent product that I can go sign up for?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZNqZxVt1g4\">Zuckerberg replied\u003c/a> that many companies offer a version of some of the services that Facebook does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't think you have a monopoly?\" Graham asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It certainly doesn't feel like that to me,\" Zuckerberg answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For almost as long as people have been using Facebook, people have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595791340/will-facebooks-cambridge-analytica-scandal-actually-cause-users-to-delete-the-ap\">talking about quitting Facebook\u003c/a>. The reasons tend to ebb and flow, depending on whether concerns about privacy, democracy or mental health are grabbing the headlines that week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reasons for staying remain pretty much the same: All our friends are here, and where would we go instead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all its ubiquity, Facebook is only 14 years old, and just because it's dominant now doesn't mean it always will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all the evident problems with Facebook's current design, I began to wonder: What might a better social network look like? And why aren't we on it yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The best parts of Facebook\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really think Facebook is destructive, so I've been doing that thought experiment pretty often,\" says mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil. She is the author of \u003cem>Weapons of Math Destruction\u003c/em>, a book about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/26/580617998/cathy-oneil-do-algorithms-perpetuate-human-bias\">the potentially dangerous consequences of algorithms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She imagines the next social network as having the best parts of Facebook, without the worst parts: \"Basically a town square where people can interact. They can keep up with each other, from their high school friends or their grandmothers ... but without sort of commercial predatory aspect of Facebook.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her network would have a moderator curating the conversation, and it would be a nonprofit, without tailored advertising. But she doesn't want the government to run the system, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people have reasonable concerns about who owns their data even if it's not consumer data,\" she says. \"Even if it's just 'Who are my friends?' If that is all owned by the government and centralized — that's a problem in itself. That's exactly the kind of problem that we worry about when we hear about like the NSA having access to the metadata around our phone calls.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A decentralized model\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. He also thinks the corporate, monopolistic structure of Facebook is worth rethinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Facebook has an awful lot of power by virtue of the fact that you have a single company making decisions for about 2 billion people all around the world,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerman says the next iteration of social networks could be decentralized, instead of run by one company. One example of this is a network that already exists, called \u003ca href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/\">Mastodon\u003c/a>. It looks like Twitter, but it's open source: Anyone can create their own community, hosted on their own server, with their own rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's lots of little Mastodon servers that have anywhere from a few hundred to a few tens of thousands of people on one another,\" he explains. \"But they confederate: You can share information between those servers.\" And while the service doesn't have tons of users so far, Zuckerman says the architecture seems sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103405\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103405\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/05/markus-spiske-221494-unsplash-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The algorithm\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another aspect of Facebook that is ripe for reinvention is the algorithm that sits behind the news feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't really have control over the algorithms that sort our information and choose what we see or don't see,\" says Zuckerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his MIT colleagues have built an experimental platform called \u003ca href=\"https://gobo.social/\">Gobo\u003c/a>, which allows users to tinker with the algorithms on your Facebook and Twitter feeds as you see fit – so they can get more news and less entertainment, or filter for more civil content and less rude content. They can also change the balance of men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you can say things like 'I'd like to hear from more women in my feed,' 'Mute all the men!' \" Zuckerman explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neil also sees major problems with Facebook's algorithm, which she says \"privileges outrage.\" In her ideal social network, the data scientists would design algorithms \"to optimize to civil disagreement, and possibly even truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The thought experiment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's both fun, and tricky, to think about what a better social network looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should it be \u003ca href=\"https://frontporchforum.com/\">bounded by geography\u003c/a>, so it's easier to meet your neighbors? Or is it a place to meet far-flung \u003ca href=\"https://www.ravelry.com/about\">kindred spirits\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you use your real name or do you keep personal data out of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you pay to use it, or maybe it pays \u003cem>you \u003c/em>to use it. And instead of being owned by a corporation, what if it were \u003ca href=\"https://www.inc.com/business-insider/twitter-shareholder-cooperative-user-owned-jack-dorsey.html\">run as a cooperative\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We might be better off if we didn't rely on one social network to do so many things, Zuckerman says. \"We might choose to have a bunch of different networks and figure out how to link them together. It's a bit crazy that we have one social network that tries to do everything. Imagine that we had one website that tried to do everything. We had those for a while — they were called portals. and they didn't go very well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of American adults \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-in-2018/\">use Facebook\u003c/a>, and three-quarters of those use it every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the network effect — that is, you want to go where your friends already are — it can be hard for a new social network to take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Zuckerman says that when other, innovative networks have threatened Facebook's dominance — it simply copied them, \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/16/to-clone-or-not-to-clone/\">as it did with Snapchat\u003c/a>, or it bought them, as it did with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/150372288/instagram-sells-for-1-billion-despite-no-revenue\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/02/20/279987745/facebook-to-buy-whatsapp-message-service\">WhatsApp\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trick is right now Facebook has a quite effective monopoly,\" he says. \"So one possibility on this could be to try to constrain Facebook from swallowing other competitors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the network effect can cut both ways. If my friends start leaving the network, it'll be easier for me to leave, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Neil says she can imagine a number of scenarios in which a real alternative to Facebook emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such scenario is where people simply lose interest — that all of this \"was kind of temporary insanity that we all went through where we wanted to do this in the first place,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are indications that \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/16957546/facebook-time-spent-decline-mark-zuckerberg-explanation-q4-earnings-2018\">people are spending less time\u003c/a> on Facebook – but that probably doesn't matter much if they \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-10/instagram-looks-like-facebook-s-best-hope\">simply migrate to Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And O'Neil notes that the fate of our social networks also depends on where in the world we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the worst problems with Facebook are happening in other countries,\" she says. \"But in terms of the United States — I can imagine it just not lasting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=As+Facebook+Shows+Its+Flaws%2C+What+Might+A+Better+Social+Network+Look+Like%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/103401/is-americas-love-of-facebook-just-temporary-insanity","authors":["byline_pop_103401"],"categories":["pop_5"],"tags":["pop_360","pop_1184"],"featImg":"pop_103404","label":"pop"},"pop_83354":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_83354","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"83354","score":null,"sort":[1496176503000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-it-possible-to-have-celebrity-heroes-in-the-tmi-age-of-twitter","title":"Is It Possible to Have Celebrity Heroes in the TMI Age of Twitter?","publishDate":1496176503,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Last weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaden_Smith\">Jaden Smith\u003c/a> -- son of \u003ca href=\"http://www.willsmith.com/\">Will \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.jadapinkettsmith.com/\">Jada Pinkett\u003c/a>, and purveyor of \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4762681/jaden-smith-dreadlocks-met-gala-2017/\">dreadlocks as hand accessories\u003c/a> -- took to Twitter to make a very serious accusation. \"The Four Seasons In Toronto Spiked My Pancakes With Cheese,\" he capitalized. \"I'm Surprised I'm Still Alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/868546245173882881\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was part of a wider rant in which Jaden declared that he wanted to \"Throw Up On [Him]self\" and get put on the hotel's \"No Stay List.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the pettiness, privilege, and strange ideas about the dangers of dairy that this outburst laid bare for the public, Jaden's meltdown was not a momentary lapse in judgment; he has not deleted the tweets, which means that, several days on, he's still not embarrassed about assuming that, as a vegan, he could die from ingesting cheese. (Has anyone mentioned to Jaden that Four Seasons pancakes probably already contain eggs and milk? Does Jaden know what vegans are allowed to eat?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, all of this, while incredibly entertaining, seems, in the grand Twitter-related scheme of things, rather petty as long as we have an acting President who uses Twitter as a means to shame his perceived enemies, rant about foreign affairs, and disparage media outlets. For his supporters, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump\">President Trump\u003c/a>'s Twitter account is the stuff of dreams -- a window into every idea he has, as he has it; for his detractors, it's a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41fbDYZyLo\">national embarrassment\u003c/a>; and for almost everyone watching, it is extraordinarily surreal to see a POTUS communicating with the world in this manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no doubt that future generations will look back on this moment in time and see Twitter as an absolute game-changer in the political sphere. But truthfully, Twitter has been having a seismic impact on how the world interacts with itself, and its famous people, for years now. This particular form of social media has absolutely changed not only the nature of how popular culture is disseminated and discussed, it has forever altered the proximity we are able to feel to our heroes. For all intents and purposes, if a celebrity is on Twitter, the world has a direct line to them. Which is why Jimmy Kimmel's \"Mean Tweets\" segments are so simultaneously satisfying and funny:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgQVj4iMm8Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Twitter is a means for celebrities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferabidor/celebrity-drunk-tweets-were-privileged-enough-to-see?utm_term=.nsdAzJJ3A#.imQYXJJPY\">drunk dial the world\u003c/a>, make announcements about both \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/256408408348061697?lang=en\">their work\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/moments/826864554403573760\">personal lives\u003c/a>, and reach out to their fans in a way that simply wasn't possible in the communication dark ages, pre-2006. Just weeks ago, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/07/nicki-minaj-makes-good-on-offer-to-help-pay-fans-student-loans-tuition/\">Nicki Minaj used the website\u003c/a> to send tuition money to her fans struggling through college. Twitter is also the medium that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/arianagrande\">Ariana Grande\u003c/a> has been using to communicate with the world since the atrocity at her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Manchester_Arena_bombing\">Manchester Arena\u003c/a> show -- and it all feels significantly more personal than releasing a press release to news outlets and waiting for that information to trickle down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unfortunate downside to all of this easy exchange of information is that we now get an insight into our celebrity darlings that can frequently make us think less of them. Twitter may have humanized famous folks, but with that familiarity comes reality so unfiltered, it is almost impossible in 2017 to keep our heroes on their pedestals. Beyoncé is basically the only major star in America still managing to retain any mystery at all, and that's probably due, in no small part, to the fact that she's one of the few celebrities that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beyonce\">rarely uses Twitter\u003c/a> at all. Sticking to the relatively silent medium of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BUXxFs4AAQJ/?taken-by=beyonce\">Instagram\u003c/a> gives her exposure, without giving so much away:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BUXxFs4AAQJ/?taken-by=beyonce\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It speaks volumes of how over-exposed we are now, that Beyoncé's \u003ca href=\"http://fusion.kinja.com/how-does-beyonce-keep-her-secrets-in-the-age-of-transpa-1793856405\">level of restraint\u003c/a> is widely viewed as a major feat, even though we all just bore witness to her baby shower. We, as a nation, have become so completely accustomed to watching famous people not just share themselves with us, but also duke it out amongst themselves, that online feuds barely even register anymore. Who can even keep track at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the Kardashians have turned the Twitter feud into an art form (Khloé vs. Amber Rose, Rob vs. Rita Ora, Kim vs. Chloë Moretz, Khloé vs. Chloë Moretz, etc. etc. ) and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/12/26/is-azealia-banks-the-musical-equivalent-of-donald-trump/\">Azealia Banks\u003c/a> is basically propping up an entire career on the back of her account. Drake's been \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6641784/meek-mill-drake-timeline\">in trouble\u003c/a>, though he usually airs beefs in song form (that old traditionalist!); Nicki Minaj isn't afraid to get into it (\u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6641794/taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-twitter-argument-timeline\">Taylor Swift was the big one\u003c/a>), Rihanna's been in spats (Ciara, Charlie Sheen); Zayn Malik has gotten into it (Calvin Harris and Louis Tomlinson); and Kanye West's Twitter account is the gift that keeps on giving (unless you're \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/09/27/jimmy-kimmel-kanye-west-twitter-feud/#dJdNplGM1iq9\">Jimmy Kimmel \u003c/a>or \u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/news/63189-kanye-west-viciously-attacks-wiz-khalifa-in-incredible-twitter-rant/\">Wiz Khalifa\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axzxe1a78E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a point when \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars----theyre-just-like-us--20131610/33407\">Stars: They're just like us!\u003c/a>\" stops being endearing. Finding out that your heroes are as flawed and human as everyone in your every day life leaves the entertainment world with a gaping hole where the icons used to be. The golden age of cinema, for example, was possible because the stars of the day remained a mystery. Would we still swoon over \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire_and_Ginger_Rogers\">Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers\u003c/a> if we'd known the ins and outs of their private lives? Would \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich\">Marlene Dietrich\u003c/a> remain such a fascinating figure today if her public image hadn't been so carefully controlled? Imagine how different the 1980s would have been if Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson were online and bickering all the time. Would we have idolized them in the same way? It's doubtful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the internet age, it's fair to say that if we are awake, we are bombarded with information. Now, more than ever, we need mystery and intrigue as a form of escape from the daily deluge. If only stars could find a way to keep some of themselves offline and out of the spotlight, their fans could return to loving them the way they used to. Just ask Beyoncé.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With Twitter taking celebrity TMI to whole new levels, is hero worship becoming relegated to history?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496176503,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1066},"headData":{"title":"Is It Possible to Have Celebrity Heroes in the TMI Age of Twitter? | KQED","description":"With Twitter taking celebrity TMI to whole new levels, is hero worship becoming relegated to history?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"83354 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=83354","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/05/30/is-it-possible-to-have-celebrity-heroes-in-the-tmi-age-of-twitter/","disqusTitle":"Is It Possible to Have Celebrity Heroes in the TMI Age of Twitter?","path":"/pop/83354/is-it-possible-to-have-celebrity-heroes-in-the-tmi-age-of-twitter","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaden_Smith\">Jaden Smith\u003c/a> -- son of \u003ca href=\"http://www.willsmith.com/\">Will \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.jadapinkettsmith.com/\">Jada Pinkett\u003c/a>, and purveyor of \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4762681/jaden-smith-dreadlocks-met-gala-2017/\">dreadlocks as hand accessories\u003c/a> -- took to Twitter to make a very serious accusation. \"The Four Seasons In Toronto Spiked My Pancakes With Cheese,\" he capitalized. \"I'm Surprised I'm Still Alive.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"868546245173882881"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>It was part of a wider rant in which Jaden declared that he wanted to \"Throw Up On [Him]self\" and get put on the hotel's \"No Stay List.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the pettiness, privilege, and strange ideas about the dangers of dairy that this outburst laid bare for the public, Jaden's meltdown was not a momentary lapse in judgment; he has not deleted the tweets, which means that, several days on, he's still not embarrassed about assuming that, as a vegan, he could die from ingesting cheese. (Has anyone mentioned to Jaden that Four Seasons pancakes probably already contain eggs and milk? Does Jaden know what vegans are allowed to eat?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, all of this, while incredibly entertaining, seems, in the grand Twitter-related scheme of things, rather petty as long as we have an acting President who uses Twitter as a means to shame his perceived enemies, rant about foreign affairs, and disparage media outlets. For his supporters, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump\">President Trump\u003c/a>'s Twitter account is the stuff of dreams -- a window into every idea he has, as he has it; for his detractors, it's a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41fbDYZyLo\">national embarrassment\u003c/a>; and for almost everyone watching, it is extraordinarily surreal to see a POTUS communicating with the world in this manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no doubt that future generations will look back on this moment in time and see Twitter as an absolute game-changer in the political sphere. But truthfully, Twitter has been having a seismic impact on how the world interacts with itself, and its famous people, for years now. This particular form of social media has absolutely changed not only the nature of how popular culture is disseminated and discussed, it has forever altered the proximity we are able to feel to our heroes. For all intents and purposes, if a celebrity is on Twitter, the world has a direct line to them. Which is why Jimmy Kimmel's \"Mean Tweets\" segments are so simultaneously satisfying and funny:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JgQVj4iMm8Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JgQVj4iMm8Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>These days, Twitter is a means for celebrities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferabidor/celebrity-drunk-tweets-were-privileged-enough-to-see?utm_term=.nsdAzJJ3A#.imQYXJJPY\">drunk dial the world\u003c/a>, make announcements about both \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/256408408348061697?lang=en\">their work\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/moments/826864554403573760\">personal lives\u003c/a>, and reach out to their fans in a way that simply wasn't possible in the communication dark ages, pre-2006. Just weeks ago, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/07/nicki-minaj-makes-good-on-offer-to-help-pay-fans-student-loans-tuition/\">Nicki Minaj used the website\u003c/a> to send tuition money to her fans struggling through college. Twitter is also the medium that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/arianagrande\">Ariana Grande\u003c/a> has been using to communicate with the world since the atrocity at her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Manchester_Arena_bombing\">Manchester Arena\u003c/a> show -- and it all feels significantly more personal than releasing a press release to news outlets and waiting for that information to trickle down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unfortunate downside to all of this easy exchange of information is that we now get an insight into our celebrity darlings that can frequently make us think less of them. Twitter may have humanized famous folks, but with that familiarity comes reality so unfiltered, it is almost impossible in 2017 to keep our heroes on their pedestals. Beyoncé is basically the only major star in America still managing to retain any mystery at all, and that's probably due, in no small part, to the fact that she's one of the few celebrities that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/beyonce\">rarely uses Twitter\u003c/a> at all. Sticking to the relatively silent medium of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BUXxFs4AAQJ/?taken-by=beyonce\">Instagram\u003c/a> gives her exposure, without giving so much away:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BUXxFs4AAQJ"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It speaks volumes of how over-exposed we are now, that Beyoncé's \u003ca href=\"http://fusion.kinja.com/how-does-beyonce-keep-her-secrets-in-the-age-of-transpa-1793856405\">level of restraint\u003c/a> is widely viewed as a major feat, even though we all just bore witness to her baby shower. We, as a nation, have become so completely accustomed to watching famous people not just share themselves with us, but also duke it out amongst themselves, that online feuds barely even register anymore. Who can even keep track at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the Kardashians have turned the Twitter feud into an art form (Khloé vs. Amber Rose, Rob vs. Rita Ora, Kim vs. Chloë Moretz, Khloé vs. Chloë Moretz, etc. etc. ) and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/12/26/is-azealia-banks-the-musical-equivalent-of-donald-trump/\">Azealia Banks\u003c/a> is basically propping up an entire career on the back of her account. Drake's been \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6641784/meek-mill-drake-timeline\">in trouble\u003c/a>, though he usually airs beefs in song form (that old traditionalist!); Nicki Minaj isn't afraid to get into it (\u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6641794/taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-twitter-argument-timeline\">Taylor Swift was the big one\u003c/a>), Rihanna's been in spats (Ciara, Charlie Sheen); Zayn Malik has gotten into it (Calvin Harris and Louis Tomlinson); and Kanye West's Twitter account is the gift that keeps on giving (unless you're \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/09/27/jimmy-kimmel-kanye-west-twitter-feud/#dJdNplGM1iq9\">Jimmy Kimmel \u003c/a>or \u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/news/63189-kanye-west-viciously-attacks-wiz-khalifa-in-incredible-twitter-rant/\">Wiz Khalifa\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0Axzxe1a78E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0Axzxe1a78E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>There is a point when \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars----theyre-just-like-us--20131610/33407\">Stars: They're just like us!\u003c/a>\" stops being endearing. Finding out that your heroes are as flawed and human as everyone in your every day life leaves the entertainment world with a gaping hole where the icons used to be. The golden age of cinema, for example, was possible because the stars of the day remained a mystery. Would we still swoon over \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire_and_Ginger_Rogers\">Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers\u003c/a> if we'd known the ins and outs of their private lives? Would \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich\">Marlene Dietrich\u003c/a> remain such a fascinating figure today if her public image hadn't been so carefully controlled? Imagine how different the 1980s would have been if Madonna, Prince, and Michael Jackson were online and bickering all the time. Would we have idolized them in the same way? It's doubtful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the internet age, it's fair to say that if we are awake, we are bombarded with information. Now, more than ever, we need mystery and intrigue as a form of escape from the daily deluge. If only stars could find a way to keep some of themselves offline and out of the spotlight, their fans could return to loving them the way they used to. Just ask Beyoncé.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/83354/is-it-possible-to-have-celebrity-heroes-in-the-tmi-age-of-twitter","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_5","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_1184","pop_245"],"featImg":"pop_83527","label":"pop"},"pop_22326":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_22326","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"22326","score":null,"sort":[1460621538000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nancy-jo-sales-on-the-dangers-of-social-media-donald-trump-and-the-infamous-alexis-neiers-voicemail","title":"Nancy Jo Sales on the Dangers of Social Media, Donald Trump and the Infamous Alexis Neiers Voicemail","publishDate":1460621538,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Things we learned from Nancy Jo: social media is scarier than you realize and Donald Trump used to be chill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/04/NancyJoSales.mp3\" title=\"Nancy Jo Sales on the Dangers of Social Media, Donald Trump and the Infamous Alexis Neiers Voicemail\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This week, we're joined by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nancyjosales.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Jo Sales\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span> a contributing editor at \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>, a prolific writer on the subjects of pop culture icons and youth culture, and the author of a new book called \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to Nancy Jo about scary corners of social media like \"slut pages\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-2.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22397\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"close laptop\" width=\"350\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We reminisced with Nancy Jo about how she used to be friends with Donald Trump in the '90s:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/home-alone-donald-trump-gif.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22398\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/home-alone-donald-trump-gif.gif\" alt=\"home alone donald trump gif\" width=\"418\" height=\"264\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I just had to ask about the infamous Alexis Neiers voicemail:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x10pkt3\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1041117499\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe and rate us in iTunes\u003c/a>! And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Things we learned from Nancy Jo: social media is scarier than you realize and Donald Trump used to be chill.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1492212411,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":188},"headData":{"title":"Nancy Jo Sales on the Dangers of Social Media, Donald Trump and the Infamous Alexis Neiers Voicemail | KQED","description":"Things we learned from Nancy Jo: social media is scarier than you realize and Donald Trump used to be chill.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"22326 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And find us on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQED-Pop-336039936485067/timeline/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedpop\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/22326/nancy-jo-sales-on-the-dangers-of-social-media-donald-trump-and-the-infamous-alexis-neiers-voicemail","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_2793"],"tags":["pop_2827","pop_1184"],"featImg":"pop_22400","label":"pop"},"pop_20968":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_20968","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"20968","score":null,"sort":[1456999746000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"are-you-too-old-for-snapchat","title":"Are You Too Old for Snapchat?","publishDate":1456999746,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>We celebrate the end of 'Downton Abbey' with a quiz, discuss why more men aren't supporting Kesha, and come to terms with Snapchat not being for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/03/Snapchat.mp3\" title=\"Are You Too Old for Snapchat?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Because \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em> is coming to an end, we revisited some of the Dowager Countess' shadiest zingers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/03/04/the-best-quotes-from-downton-abbeys-dowager-countess-queen-of-shade/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tested our \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> knowledge with a quiz. 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I wasn’t a very social or sociable kid, but when I made a new friend and was given their phone number, I had special permission to add it to the book. Steve G., Joe S., Jay A., wherever you are now, you earned a special place in that red, faux-leather address book that still exists on Weaver Road in Ohio. That was the official demarcation point separating “my friend” from “kid I talk to in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today? Friendship is not official until it’s Facebook Official. It’s the modern day address book, a catalog of our friends and acquaintances. And unlike the old pen-and-paper address book, you can look at a Facebook profile and see your web of social connections. 82 friends in common, 23 friends in common, friends-of-friends you might not have met yet, but who are \u003cem>people you may know\u003c/em>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we’ve all got some randoms on our friends list, too. The lone trees in the wilderness with no web of connections, \u003cem>no mutual friends\u003c/em>, holdovers from other lives or social groups. Past girlfriends or lost connections who sought you out (or who you sought out) to scratch some existential itch. Because if you’re not friends on Facebook, how do you know they’re real?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are names I type into the search bar from time to time. School friends or dimly recalled vacation acquaintances, folks I met once or simply haven’t heard from since they moved away when we were both in the fourth grade. Are they real? Are they misremembered ghosts? Will it make them more real if I can find their online avatars, send a request, and see it confirmed? 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The only people I wish happy birthdays to are the ones who plug their birthdays into Facebook. If I’m throwing a party, the invitations live there too. Facebook has become more than just an address book or a calendar -- it’s an approximation and representation of my real life, to the point that things really do seem more real if they’re mirrored online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade, an exchange student from Japan came to my high school. He didn’t live with me and my family, but he joined my Dungeons & Dragons group and became a fixture in our small, nerdy circle. 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I sent a friend request, he accepted it, and there was proof. \u003cem>Matthew became friends with Yusuke.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nearby message stated we had \u003cem>no mutual friends\u003c/em>. Was that true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people I know in real life, people I share dozens of actual friend\u003cem>s \u003c/em>with, that I haven’t friend requested virtually. I see them in life, but not enough that I have much curiosity about their Buzzfeed quiz results or vacation pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks are opting out of virtual social networks altogether, either as political statements or as lifestyle choices. It makes it hard to remember their birthdays, and it also means I miss out on casually absorbing their life events. One of my Facebook-less friends got very sick last year, and she passed away in July. I found out the old fashioned way -- well, the new-old fashioned way -- via email from a real-life-mutual-friend. I flew to Chicago to attend Anne’s memorial service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne’s sister Renee, who I hadn’t seen in ten years or more, remembered me by sight. She remembered the wedding we’d all attended -- Renee was a singer in the wedding band -- and she remembered the pig that had roasted nearby. At lunch after the wake, I read from an email exchange between Anne and myself from a few months before. I hugged Renee and her mother, and I sat around a real table with Anne’s real friends, and we told stories in real time, face to face and voice to voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, back in California, I looked Renee up on Facebook. I sent her a friend request, which she accepted. Her profile picture was an image of her little sister Anne, smiling at the camera, facing toward the camera and away from a sunset reflection on a lake. The social network said Renee and I had \u003cem>no mutual friends\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I knew that wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/13343/has-facebook-become-the-barometer-for-whats-real-in-our-lives","authors":["3228"],"categories":["pop_1155","pop_5"],"tags":["pop_1184"],"featImg":"pop_13881","label":"pop"},"pop_13621":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13621","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13621","score":null,"sort":[1411653767000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ello-a-hopeful-meeting-place-for-people-fed-up-with-facebook","title":"Ello: A Hopeful Meeting Place for People Fed Up With Facebook","publishDate":1411653767,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb.jpg\" alt=\"fb\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb-360x213.jpg 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I picture the internet as a surreal landscape, a place with textures and sensations, a location full of the mundane, the miraculous and the ominous. This visualization was heightened upon my discovery of Debbie Millman's \u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/an-embroidered-map-of-arpanet-the-infant-internet-1549082868\">embroidery project\u003c/a> depicting the early internet, and continued when I saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/tech/gallery/internet-undersea-cables/\">maps of undersea wiring\u003c/a> wrapped around the entire world, carrying the internet inside. So the websites we visit are glimmering electricity underneath the ocean, a living energy and geography, a terrain to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, that navigation led me to a new social networking site called \u003ca href=\"http://www.firstpost.com/living/hello-ello-goodbye-facebook-social-media-network-without-ads-woos-us-users-1727967.html\">Ello\u003c/a>. Ello has a \u003ca href=\"https://ello.co/wtf/post/manifesto\">manifesto\u003c/a>, is still in beta, and is currently invite-only. It crashes a lot and is very slow. It posted a message from me to my sister three times and then wouldn't let me delete the extra two and then deleted all three. However, I love all of these qualities because they indicate something new is happening. Perhaps our post-Facebook era can really begin now. Ello faces many challenges in a playing field dominated by titans and the perennial question of how anything ad-free can be sustainable. Not to mention, there's no \"like\" button (how will I demonstrate I like something?). These and other concerns occur to me as I try to understand the unfamiliar interface, soak in the novelty of the lovely typewriter-esque font and waste a Facebook-ian amount of time choosing my profile picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, still, there is something astir as I write this. There's a little digital rumble: \u003ca href=\"http://www.queerty.com/is-ello-the-anti-facebook-social-network-weve-all-been-waiting-for-20140924\">articles are popping up\u003c/a>, Facebook friends are actually defecting. It might be wishful thinking, or it might be just a slight nudge of the paradigm. I'm rooting for the latter, but only time will tell. “People who say it's impossible to create something new imagine a stagnant future,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailydot.com/technology/ello-no-ads-social-web/\">Paul Budintz\u003c/a>, the creator of Ello. \"There's a kind of totalitarianism in that attitude. A lot of the data mining and manipulative behavior engaged in by big social networks has that flavor, a real arrogance and cynicism.” Ello was created as the antidote to that totalitarianism, and, if successful, might be able to fulfill a certain collective desire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13638\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13638\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13638 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto-360x224.png\" alt=\"Ello Manifesto\" width=\"360\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto-360x224.png 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto-300x187.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto.png 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ello Manifesto.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have no specific hope or expectation at this point, only a curiosity and anticipation about what will happen next. Perhaps nothing will come of Ello, perhaps there will not be the magnificent exodus and revolution I dream of today as I reload my crashed home page, the pleasing minimalist design reappearing on the third try. But I appreciate the potential in this moment, how it feels to participate in a place not muddled by ads, greed and money. It feels unencumbered by the obliviousness of technology merely for technology’s sake. Maybe, just maybe, we can re-set, start over, decide what it is we’re really doing here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The philosopher Slavoj Zizek says, \"I secretly think that reality exists so we can speculate about it.\" And reality right now certainly is very strange and interesting, worthy of our most critical speculation. Our technological existence and our lived experiences are ever blurred, and with what repercussions? In his essay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-interpassive-subject/\">\"The Interpassive Subject\"\u003c/a>, Zizek explores the passive state that arises when we're ostensibly interacting, but actually aren't. Women hired to cry at funerals 0r canned laughter on television are compared to online personas in that our “most intimate feelings can be radically externalized.” Certainly social media is social media regardless of its incarnation, with certain trappings and tendencies. Yet, I can’t help but wonder how the intention, format, concept and context of a social network might influence the subsequent experience. Maybe we can move from our passivity to meaningful interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live in a city where Mark Zuckerburg himself is installing fiber optic cables under the sidewalk in front of his \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-construction-work-annoys-neighbors-2014-9\">new fortress\u003c/a>, mere blocks from my apartment, and where on a random Wednesday I walk out my door and interrupt a fashion shoot for a cell phone ad literally happening on my front stoop. On a lamppost half a block away from this photo shoot is an outraged Xeroxed collage, high school '90s style, an overlapping compilation of words including \u003ci>soul, luxury, innovation\u003c/i> and T\u003ci>witter\u003c/i> with images of bombs exploding and fancy cars. Imagine some frustrated person in the midst of their noisy, modern life stopping to cut up a magazine with a pair of scissors and some glue. Ello feels like it is \u003ca href=\"http://betabeat.com/2014/09/mysterious-social-network-ello-explodes-in-popularity-for-people-fleeing-facebook/\">that type of protestation \u003c/a>too, simple but dramatic, a much needed alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, a place my teenage students have whole-heartedly abandoned, has been deemed \u003ca href=\"http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/social-disease-facebook-lose-80-percent-user-2017-says-study-216822.html\">in danger of dying out like a disease\u003c/a>, and further rendered itself out of touch and irrelevant with its latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/facebook-real-name-policy_n_5839912.html\">naming controversy\u003c/a>. A viable alternative that might help create a new kind of dynamic seems really exciting. As I send out my 25 allotted invites I feel a sort of pre-party giddiness. Who will show up? What will happen next? Ello is different than the lackluster contender of, say, Google Plus. In fact, the energy and buzz around Ello is reminiscent of the early 2000s, when I first found out, to my vague horror and fascination, that my new boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend was connected to my childhood friend, thanks to this thing called Friendster.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Facebook friends are defecting and offering you an invite. So what's the deal with Ello?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412283983,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":922},"headData":{"title":"Ello: A Hopeful Meeting Place for People Fed Up With Facebook | KQED","description":"Facebook friends are defecting and offering you an invite. So what's the deal with Ello?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"13621 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=13621","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/09/25/ello-a-hopeful-meeting-place-for-people-fed-up-with-facebook/","disqusTitle":"Ello: A Hopeful Meeting Place for People Fed Up With Facebook","path":"/pop/13621/ello-a-hopeful-meeting-place-for-people-fed-up-with-facebook","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb.jpg\" alt=\"fb\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb-360x213.jpg 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/fb-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I picture the internet as a surreal landscape, a place with textures and sensations, a location full of the mundane, the miraculous and the ominous. This visualization was heightened upon my discovery of Debbie Millman's \u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/an-embroidered-map-of-arpanet-the-infant-internet-1549082868\">embroidery project\u003c/a> depicting the early internet, and continued when I saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/tech/gallery/internet-undersea-cables/\">maps of undersea wiring\u003c/a> wrapped around the entire world, carrying the internet inside. So the websites we visit are glimmering electricity underneath the ocean, a living energy and geography, a terrain to navigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, that navigation led me to a new social networking site called \u003ca href=\"http://www.firstpost.com/living/hello-ello-goodbye-facebook-social-media-network-without-ads-woos-us-users-1727967.html\">Ello\u003c/a>. Ello has a \u003ca href=\"https://ello.co/wtf/post/manifesto\">manifesto\u003c/a>, is still in beta, and is currently invite-only. It crashes a lot and is very slow. It posted a message from me to my sister three times and then wouldn't let me delete the extra two and then deleted all three. However, I love all of these qualities because they indicate something new is happening. Perhaps our post-Facebook era can really begin now. Ello faces many challenges in a playing field dominated by titans and the perennial question of how anything ad-free can be sustainable. Not to mention, there's no \"like\" button (how will I demonstrate I like something?). These and other concerns occur to me as I try to understand the unfamiliar interface, soak in the novelty of the lovely typewriter-esque font and waste a Facebook-ian amount of time choosing my profile picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, still, there is something astir as I write this. There's a little digital rumble: \u003ca href=\"http://www.queerty.com/is-ello-the-anti-facebook-social-network-weve-all-been-waiting-for-20140924\">articles are popping up\u003c/a>, Facebook friends are actually defecting. It might be wishful thinking, or it might be just a slight nudge of the paradigm. I'm rooting for the latter, but only time will tell. “People who say it's impossible to create something new imagine a stagnant future,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailydot.com/technology/ello-no-ads-social-web/\">Paul Budintz\u003c/a>, the creator of Ello. \"There's a kind of totalitarianism in that attitude. A lot of the data mining and manipulative behavior engaged in by big social networks has that flavor, a real arrogance and cynicism.” Ello was created as the antidote to that totalitarianism, and, if successful, might be able to fulfill a certain collective desire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13638\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13638\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13638 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto-360x224.png\" alt=\"Ello Manifesto\" width=\"360\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto-360x224.png 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto-300x187.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Ello-Manifesto.png 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ello Manifesto.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have no specific hope or expectation at this point, only a curiosity and anticipation about what will happen next. Perhaps nothing will come of Ello, perhaps there will not be the magnificent exodus and revolution I dream of today as I reload my crashed home page, the pleasing minimalist design reappearing on the third try. But I appreciate the potential in this moment, how it feels to participate in a place not muddled by ads, greed and money. It feels unencumbered by the obliviousness of technology merely for technology’s sake. Maybe, just maybe, we can re-set, start over, decide what it is we’re really doing here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The philosopher Slavoj Zizek says, \"I secretly think that reality exists so we can speculate about it.\" And reality right now certainly is very strange and interesting, worthy of our most critical speculation. Our technological existence and our lived experiences are ever blurred, and with what repercussions? In his essay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-interpassive-subject/\">\"The Interpassive Subject\"\u003c/a>, Zizek explores the passive state that arises when we're ostensibly interacting, but actually aren't. Women hired to cry at funerals 0r canned laughter on television are compared to online personas in that our “most intimate feelings can be radically externalized.” Certainly social media is social media regardless of its incarnation, with certain trappings and tendencies. Yet, I can’t help but wonder how the intention, format, concept and context of a social network might influence the subsequent experience. Maybe we can move from our passivity to meaningful interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I live in a city where Mark Zuckerburg himself is installing fiber optic cables under the sidewalk in front of his \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-construction-work-annoys-neighbors-2014-9\">new fortress\u003c/a>, mere blocks from my apartment, and where on a random Wednesday I walk out my door and interrupt a fashion shoot for a cell phone ad literally happening on my front stoop. On a lamppost half a block away from this photo shoot is an outraged Xeroxed collage, high school '90s style, an overlapping compilation of words including \u003ci>soul, luxury, innovation\u003c/i> and T\u003ci>witter\u003c/i> with images of bombs exploding and fancy cars. Imagine some frustrated person in the midst of their noisy, modern life stopping to cut up a magazine with a pair of scissors and some glue. Ello feels like it is \u003ca href=\"http://betabeat.com/2014/09/mysterious-social-network-ello-explodes-in-popularity-for-people-fleeing-facebook/\">that type of protestation \u003c/a>too, simple but dramatic, a much needed alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, a place my teenage students have whole-heartedly abandoned, has been deemed \u003ca href=\"http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/social-disease-facebook-lose-80-percent-user-2017-says-study-216822.html\">in danger of dying out like a disease\u003c/a>, and further rendered itself out of touch and irrelevant with its latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/facebook-real-name-policy_n_5839912.html\">naming controversy\u003c/a>. A viable alternative that might help create a new kind of dynamic seems really exciting. As I send out my 25 allotted invites I feel a sort of pre-party giddiness. Who will show up? What will happen next? Ello is different than the lackluster contender of, say, Google Plus. In fact, the energy and buzz around Ello is reminiscent of the early 2000s, when I first found out, to my vague horror and fascination, that my new boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend was connected to my childhood friend, thanks to this thing called Friendster.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/13621/ello-a-hopeful-meeting-place-for-people-fed-up-with-facebook","authors":["2415"],"categories":["pop_1155","pop_5","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_2684","pop_360","pop_1184"],"featImg":"pop_13660","label":"pop"},"pop_12547":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_12547","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"12547","score":null,"sort":[1403723735000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-social-media-feeds-became-the-new-soap-operas","title":"How Social Media Feeds Became The New Soap Operas","publishDate":1403723735,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/25/how-social-media-feeds-became-the-new-soap-operas/social-media/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12571\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/social-media.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Thinkstock\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/social-media.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/social-media-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Thinkstock\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first \"soap opera\" I followed regularly was the original \u003cem>Beverly Hills 90210\u003c/em>, back when I was way too young to be exposed to the exploits of Dylan, Brenda, Kelly, Brandon and all the other kids in their zip code. This was the first truly episodic television experience I remember, hanging on until the following week to see if Brenda was going to go off the deep end or if anyone would ever figure out Andrea was too old to still be in high school. It established a certain kind of viewing mindset for me; I wanted an inside look at these character's problems and I needed it in regular doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next cliffhanging, edge-of-your-seat voyeurism into people's sordid existences I remember following was the O.J. Simpson trial. Not even Donna Martin's graduation could compete with the human grotesqueries of one of the most covered trials in history. And they were all \u003cem>real\u003c/em>; suddenly, the stakes were so much higher. Aaron Spelling got pushed to the side and we've been TMZ-ing ourselves on celebrity scandals ever since. It's been argued that the Simpson trial in the '90s led to reality TV in the early 2000s, and it's not a huge leap to imagine that these two are somehow related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with all television (even reality) on the wane and binge watching changing our episodic relationship to programming, where are we to get our daily doses of other people's lives? Look no further than your status feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon occurred to me recently while browsing Twitter: I looked at the celebrity accounts I follow and realized there was more than one deceased person on the list (Elizabeth Taylor, Maya Angelou, and a couple others too embarrassing to name). I had followed them\u003cem> to death\u003c/em>. Then I thought about the living celebrities I followed. Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Brett Easton Ellis, and an assortment of even more embarrassing figures have all \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38036833/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/top-twitter-meltdowns-tirades-tantrums/\">lived out their dramas publicly on the platform\u003c/a> and we've been there for our 140 character fixes every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the recent \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/1l1KLSr\">Ryan Chamberlain explosives story broke in San Francisco\u003c/a>, I, like many journalists in the city, followed his flight and bizarre postings via Twitter up until the day he was apprehended at Crissy Field. I was actually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Festa-della-Repubblica-party-complete-with-bomb-5526101.php?cmpid=twitter-mobile\">at a party\u003c/a> a few hundred yards away the night he was captured. Of course, the first place I reported it was Twitter so that the people following the soap operatic foibles of my existence could get their fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is social media feed-stalking the serial for the millennial generation? Move the celebrities and local fugitives to the side; haven't we all followed the drama of a high school classmate's divorce, a distant cousin's pregnancy, the splendid Instagrams of a friend's vacation or any number of other happenings with the same intensity we once used to distract ourselves with soap operas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, maybe our cyber voyeurism is bringing us back to our earliest and simplest selves. Instead of obsessing over fictional lives, we're magically transported to an earlier time in the history of man; we sit around the metaphorical campfire of our devices and tell stories of the other villagers or the people from the neighboring tribe, the tales carried not by the wind but by the currents of social media. Whether you want the scandals of an Anthony Weiner, the shenanigans of a James Franco, the meltdown of a Justin Bieber or just the minutia of an anonymous life, it's all there in your feed. Tune in regularly for status updates.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With television on the wane and binge watching changing our episodic relationship to programming, where are we to get our daily doses of other people's lives? Look no further than your status feed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1403723607,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":620},"headData":{"title":"How Social Media Feeds Became The New Soap Operas | KQED","description":"With television on the wane and binge watching changing our episodic relationship to programming, where are we to get our daily doses of other people's lives? Look no further than your status feed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"12547 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=12547","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/25/how-social-media-feeds-became-the-new-soap-operas/","disqusTitle":"How Social Media Feeds Became The New Soap Operas","path":"/pop/12547/how-social-media-feeds-became-the-new-soap-operas","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/25/how-social-media-feeds-became-the-new-soap-operas/social-media/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12571\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/social-media.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Thinkstock\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/social-media.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/social-media-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Thinkstock\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first \"soap opera\" I followed regularly was the original \u003cem>Beverly Hills 90210\u003c/em>, back when I was way too young to be exposed to the exploits of Dylan, Brenda, Kelly, Brandon and all the other kids in their zip code. This was the first truly episodic television experience I remember, hanging on until the following week to see if Brenda was going to go off the deep end or if anyone would ever figure out Andrea was too old to still be in high school. It established a certain kind of viewing mindset for me; I wanted an inside look at these character's problems and I needed it in regular doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next cliffhanging, edge-of-your-seat voyeurism into people's sordid existences I remember following was the O.J. Simpson trial. Not even Donna Martin's graduation could compete with the human grotesqueries of one of the most covered trials in history. And they were all \u003cem>real\u003c/em>; suddenly, the stakes were so much higher. Aaron Spelling got pushed to the side and we've been TMZ-ing ourselves on celebrity scandals ever since. It's been argued that the Simpson trial in the '90s led to reality TV in the early 2000s, and it's not a huge leap to imagine that these two are somehow related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with all television (even reality) on the wane and binge watching changing our episodic relationship to programming, where are we to get our daily doses of other people's lives? Look no further than your status feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon occurred to me recently while browsing Twitter: I looked at the celebrity accounts I follow and realized there was more than one deceased person on the list (Elizabeth Taylor, Maya Angelou, and a couple others too embarrassing to name). I had followed them\u003cem> to death\u003c/em>. Then I thought about the living celebrities I followed. Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Brett Easton Ellis, and an assortment of even more embarrassing figures have all \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38036833/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/top-twitter-meltdowns-tirades-tantrums/\">lived out their dramas publicly on the platform\u003c/a> and we've been there for our 140 character fixes every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the recent \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/1l1KLSr\">Ryan Chamberlain explosives story broke in San Francisco\u003c/a>, I, like many journalists in the city, followed his flight and bizarre postings via Twitter up until the day he was apprehended at Crissy Field. I was actually \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Festa-della-Repubblica-party-complete-with-bomb-5526101.php?cmpid=twitter-mobile\">at a party\u003c/a> a few hundred yards away the night he was captured. Of course, the first place I reported it was Twitter so that the people following the soap operatic foibles of my existence could get their fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is social media feed-stalking the serial for the millennial generation? Move the celebrities and local fugitives to the side; haven't we all followed the drama of a high school classmate's divorce, a distant cousin's pregnancy, the splendid Instagrams of a friend's vacation or any number of other happenings with the same intensity we once used to distract ourselves with soap operas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, maybe our cyber voyeurism is bringing us back to our earliest and simplest selves. Instead of obsessing over fictional lives, we're magically transported to an earlier time in the history of man; we sit around the metaphorical campfire of our devices and tell stories of the other villagers or the people from the neighboring tribe, the tales carried not by the wind but by the currents of social media. Whether you want the scandals of an Anthony Weiner, the shenanigans of a James Franco, the meltdown of a Justin Bieber or just the minutia of an anonymous life, it's all there in your feed. Tune in regularly for status updates.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/12547/how-social-media-feeds-became-the-new-soap-operas","authors":["2436"],"categories":["pop_1155"],"tags":["pop_1610","pop_1184","pop_245"],"featImg":"pop_12571","label":"pop"},"pop_9342":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_9342","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"9342","score":null,"sort":[1382706051000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dave-eggers-the-circle-and-why-im-leaving-the-bay-area","title":"Dave Eggers, The Circle and Why I’m Leaving the Bay Area","publishDate":1382706051,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/25/dave-eggers-the-circle-and-why-im-leaving-the-bay-area/thecircle/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9343\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle.jpg\" alt=\"thecircle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can't tell you definitively what brought me to San Francisco seven years ago. I mean, graduate school, but why did I apply to San Francisco State? There was the British guy who lived across the street from me who I had a crush on who said I would love it here. That's the \"it's always about a boy\" answer. I needed to leave Portland and become an adult and SFSU was the only school that didn't require essays in their application and as a 23-year-old I was mainly too drunk to write admissions essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was also Dave Eggers. I read \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius \u003c/em>when I was 18, in my senior year of high school. I read it again my freshman year of college. It blew my mind and changed my life in a way no other book really ever has. A concrete way. While reading the Bible and all of JD Salinger's non-\u003cem>Catcher in the Rye \u003c/em>work and Kurt Vonnegut (the other things I was really into at age 18) were moving and gave me vague ideas about spirituality, \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work \u003c/em>gave me permission to write the way I wanted to write, the way I had tentatively started writing, which was just: about being myself. I couldn't believe this was actually allowed. That book also gave me an idea that the Bay Area was the place to be, a place where you could be a better version of yourself, a place where standing on the beach and throwing a Frisbee a million miles was possible, a place where tragedy and happiness could coexist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also liked the idea of Dave Eggers’ pirate supply store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in 2006 I got a tattoo of the state of Oregon on my chest so no one would forget where I was from and left Portland, moving out of the apartment I was sharing with my little brother and allowing all the drunk calls from the non-boyfriend guy I was sort of dating to go to voice mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, I became a new person, just like \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work \u003c/em>made me believe was possible. No one knew a single thing about me. I wasn't held back by the expectations of people who'd known me since I was 13 months old, or four or eight or 14. People met me as Lizzy Acker, the adult. I got to be a writer, a friend, a dependable employee. I wasn't the girl who totaled her family car in middle school or the girl who cried in Calculus class or staged an unsuccessful boycott of the Mr. Spartan Pageant or who looked like a boy up until sixth grade or who didn't lose her virginity until she was 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did a lot of amazing things here, had a million adventures. I fell in love, I finished graduate school, I wrote a book, I got my heart broken, I got a good job. I've had a very seriously eventful seven years. But a few months ago, I decided that it was time to go home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same way I can't pin down the thing that brought me here, what is making me leave is elusive and has changed a few times in the last couple months. I mean, as with everything, it's about a boy. But after reading Dave Egger's newest book, \u003cem>The Circle\u003c/em>, I realize that there is more to it than just one boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read \u003cem>The Circle \u003c/em>like I haven't read a book in a really long time. I read while walking to work, in line at Starbucks, sneakily in the bathroom, hiding it behind my back when I walked out. I was done in about two days. I couldn't believe Dave Eggers had written another book that seemed to be so directly meant for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Circle \u003c/em>is the story of a girl, the Bay Area and social networking. The girl, Mae, starts working at a Google/Facebook monolith and quickly becomes subsumed by its culture and dogma, to the point where she truly believes the only way to be happy is to record every second of her life, is to have no secrets and no privacy. As a counterpoint to the glittery, safe, antiseptic tech wonderland of the Circle, Eggers uses Richardson Bay (never named) and the anarchic anchor-out community just off the shore of Sausalito. Weirdly, I spent all of September and still spend many of my weekends, out on this part of the Bay in a boat for an art project, so I knew it immediately. To me, this has become the Bay that I love, a beautiful place that still contains magic, while I've seen the city of San Francisco go from a place fueled by creativity and struggle, into a super-connected, spiritless town deadened by unquestioning Worship of the App. In \u003cem>The Circle\u003c/em>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the changes in behavior and intense connectivity have gone farther than they currently are, but not by much. Mae is only a little connected when she starts out at her job at the Circle, with the equivalent of one Facebook page and one Twitter account, but by the end she has millions of followers on the all-inclusive Circle, nine screens, a camera around her neck and two bracelets to give her real-time physical and audience feedback. The only time she isn’t connected is when she goes to the bathroom and even then, only the audio is off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to me that Eggers, who is famous for telling absolutely everything about himself in \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work\u003c/em>, is wrestling with the question of radical honesty online. I write about my life very openly--I like to and it feels right for me to be my own version of honest. However, I don't want to tell you everything. I like to reserve the right to create my own narrative and I make things up sometimes. I change events to make them sound better or worse. And I like to keep some things--secret moments, two-person dance parties, a hand on my knee, mixed tapes--for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Circle\u003c/em>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Dave Eggers is pointing out how quickly we in the Bay, the nexus of the current startup movement which is completely reshaping world culture, are willing to adopt things that make our lives \"easier,\" without thinking of their logical consequences. How in a few years we have gone from defining ourselves by the feedback we get from the people immediately around us, to defining ourselves by the feedback we're getting, the likes and shares and upvotes, from hordes of strangers. He is asking if it is really safe to allow a massive corporation, whose goal is to constantly make more money at a faster rate, to have all our information and mediate all our purchases, communications and media consumption, to mediate our whole lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I'm writing this, my headphones are on and Facebook is making a pinging noise in my ears and immediately I am feeling that hope, desire that someone is acknowledging my existence, sharing something I wrote, liking something I said, saying I look cute in a picture. Later, I will check the analytics on this blog and maybe on a story I wrote somewhere else, earlier this week. I'll probably check Twitter for any mentions of my name. I will be disappointed if there aren't any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know my decision to leave San Francisco and to stop working in social media is the correct one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not a hundred percent sure what I will do when I leave. But at least for a little while, I am going home to Oregon, where I can measure my worth within myself and against the faces and real-life smiles of people I have known for 16, 25, 31 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to miss a lot of things here: the water in Sausalito, the sunshine, the seals, The Giant Dipper on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, my friends, my coworkers. But I won't miss the three-screen experience that is my life mostly every day. I won't miss the mediated communication with the people who have eye balls I would like to look into, who have hands I would like to hold. I won't miss the lack of time for reflection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing things is terrifying but in July my very best friend and I got matching tattoos of geometric California bears that he had drawn. I’m going to miss him so much I can barely think about it, but it’s time to leave and find a new place to be a new version of myself before I get lost in a mess of analytics, likes, shares and smiley faces. Of course, I’m giving notice and not leaving until December. I wanted to give you some time to process the whole thing. But after that, if you want, let’s start sending each other letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius brought me to the Bay and The Circle will see me out.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1397690089,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1554},"headData":{"title":"Dave Eggers, The Circle and Why I’m Leaving the Bay Area | KQED","description":"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius brought me to the Bay and The Circle will see me out.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"9342 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=9342","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/25/dave-eggers-the-circle-and-why-im-leaving-the-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"Dave Eggers, The Circle and Why I’m Leaving the Bay Area","path":"/pop/9342/dave-eggers-the-circle-and-why-im-leaving-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/25/dave-eggers-the-circle-and-why-im-leaving-the-bay-area/thecircle/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9343\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle.jpg\" alt=\"thecircle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can't tell you definitively what brought me to San Francisco seven years ago. I mean, graduate school, but why did I apply to San Francisco State? There was the British guy who lived across the street from me who I had a crush on who said I would love it here. That's the \"it's always about a boy\" answer. I needed to leave Portland and become an adult and SFSU was the only school that didn't require essays in their application and as a 23-year-old I was mainly too drunk to write admissions essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was also Dave Eggers. I read \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius \u003c/em>when I was 18, in my senior year of high school. I read it again my freshman year of college. It blew my mind and changed my life in a way no other book really ever has. A concrete way. While reading the Bible and all of JD Salinger's non-\u003cem>Catcher in the Rye \u003c/em>work and Kurt Vonnegut (the other things I was really into at age 18) were moving and gave me vague ideas about spirituality, \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work \u003c/em>gave me permission to write the way I wanted to write, the way I had tentatively started writing, which was just: about being myself. I couldn't believe this was actually allowed. 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No one knew a single thing about me. I wasn't held back by the expectations of people who'd known me since I was 13 months old, or four or eight or 14. People met me as Lizzy Acker, the adult. I got to be a writer, a friend, a dependable employee. I wasn't the girl who totaled her family car in middle school or the girl who cried in Calculus class or staged an unsuccessful boycott of the Mr. Spartan Pageant or who looked like a boy up until sixth grade or who didn't lose her virginity until she was 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did a lot of amazing things here, had a million adventures. I fell in love, I finished graduate school, I wrote a book, I got my heart broken, I got a good job. I've had a very seriously eventful seven years. But a few months ago, I decided that it was time to go home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same way I can't pin down the thing that brought me here, what is making me leave is elusive and has changed a few times in the last couple months. 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