Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Keep scrollin' scrollin' scrollin' scrollin'

How many hundreds of miles do you think you've scrolled in your lifetime?

The problem with social media is that there's no 'stopping-cues'. In comparison say to a book (where you might come to the end of a chapter and decide whether you want to continue or not), or watching a tv program (where it ultimately ends or you finish a box-set or series), but with social media you can avail of endless scrolling through timelines that don't offer a similar stopping-cue. The box-set binges pale in comparison to the timeline binge.

On Twitter, new content is being produced quicker than you can ever read what’s already being posted.

You'll never catch up with it all.