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# Link: Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

=> https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
> Hurting each other is just ever so much more usefulthan talking and connecting. Leaving people alone doesn’t produce narcissistic supply. It doesn’t feed the need to control and force that some humans, it seems, have always been and always will be born with.

This article really captures the cycle of destruction that comes to any successful social media platform, and the frustration that comes with it. The diagnosis reads accurate and I can echo the feeling. 

Our platforms shouldn’t be held ransom to profit or the hateful, and it’ll be up to us to figure out how to make that work, but it’s an existential matter.

> Don’t ever stop talking to each other. It’s what the internet is really and truly for. Talk to each other and listen to each other. But don’t ever stop connecting.

I am ultimately hopeful, because I believe more people out there want to genuinely connect and love. It’s going to be a rocky road but one of the most important ones to go down.
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	3	=> https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
	4	> Hurting each other is just ever so much more usefulthan talking and connecting. Leaving people alone doesn’t produce narcissistic supply. It doesn’t feed the need to control and force that some humans, it seems, have always been and always will be born with.
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	6	This article really captures the cycle of destruction that comes to any successful social media platform, and the frustration that comes with it. The diagnosis reads accurate and I can echo the feeling.
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	8	Our platforms shouldn’t be held ransom to profit or the hateful, and it’ll be up to us to figure out how to make that work, but it’s an existential matter.
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	10	> Don’t ever stop talking to each other. It’s what the internet is really and truly for. Talk to each other and listen to each other. But don’t ever stop connecting.
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	12	I am ultimately hopeful, because I believe more people out there want to genuinely connect and love. It’s going to be a rocky road but one of the most important ones to go down.