“How can disaster be exploited by cynical social media companies?”I’m glad you asked, hypothetical person that I made up!Since the invasion of Ukraine last night, our site traffic has jumped up to 160% of average capacity and is still increasing [Thread]— Hexbear (@chapo_chat) February 24, 2022
The social feeds are an absolute barrage of contextless moments. I wanna say there’s a relatively new temporal illusion related to this. Usually there’s a tradeoff between the perceived length of experience as it’s happening and the perceived length of time when recalling the memory of that experience. So on one hand, time flies when your having fun but the memories of that fun are rich. On the other hand, time goes slow when your bored and there’s very little to recall afterwards, so it seems short. Social media manages to let us take up time as if we were having fun and recall it as if we were bored. It’s short-short time.
The social feeds are an absolute barrage of contextless moments. I wanna say there’s a relatively new temporal illusion related to this. Usually there’s a tradeoff between the perceived length of experience as it’s happening and the perceived length of time when recalling the memory of that experience. So on one hand, time flies when your having fun but the memories of that fun are rich. On the other hand, time goes slow when your bored and there’s very little to recall afterwards, so it seems short. Social media manages to let us take up time as if we were having fun and recall it as if we were bored. It’s short-short time.