Quotes About Social media

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

Facebook'un bugün iki milyardan fazla kullan?c?s? var ve 500 milyar dolarl?k piyasa de?eriyle ABD'nin en de?erli be?inci ?irketi. Öte yandan petrol ve do?algaz ?irketi ExxonMobil'in de?eriyse yakla??k 370 milyar dolar. Anla??lan Facebook ve Google gibi ?irketlerin temel kayna?? olan insan dakikalar?n? toplamak, petrol ç?karmaktan çok daha kârl? bir i? art?k.

You can't, in other words, build a billion dollar empire like Facebook if you're wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook.

I propose and defend the perhaps controversial claim that your relationships will strengthen if you stop clicking "Like" or leaving comments on social media posts, and become harder to reach by text messages.

the people I knew who signed up for thefacebook.com were almost certainly spending significantly more time playing Snood (a Tetris-style puzzle game that was inexplicably popular)

The real rewards are reserved not for those who are comfortable using Facebook (a shallow task, easily replicated), but instead for those who are comfortable building the innovative distributed systems that run the service (a decidedly deep task, hard to replicate).

Because, let's face it, checking "likes" is the new smoking.

No one, of course, signed up for this loss of control. They downloaded the apps and set up accounts for good reasons, only to discover, with grim irony, that these services were beginning to undermine the very values that made them appealing in the first place: they joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then ended up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with the friend sitting across the table.

What's making us uncomfortable, in other words, is this feeling of losing control—a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our phone during our child's bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience. It's not about usefulness, it's about autonomy.

I urge you, for the sake of your social well-being, to adopt the baseline rule that you'll no longer use social media as a tool for low-quality relationship nudges. Put simply, don't click and don't comment. This basic stricture will radically change for the better how you maintain your social life.

But part of what makes social media insidious is that the companies that profit from your attention have succeeded with a masterful marketing coup: convincing our culture that if you don't use their products you might miss out.

they joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then ended up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with the friend sitting across the table.

Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological. Even worse, to support deep work often requires the rejection of much of what is new and high-tech. Deep work is exiled in favor of more distracting high-tech behaviors, like the professional use of social media, not because the former is empirically inferior to the latter.

we should not be surprised that deep work struggles to compete against the shiny thrum of tweets, likes, tagged photos, walls, posts, and all the other behaviors that we're now taught are necessary for no other reason than that they exist.

is that we have evidence that replacing your real-world relationships with social media use is detrimental to your well-being.

Don't click "Like." Ever. And while you're at it, stop leaving comments on social media posts as well. No "so cute!" or "so cool!" Remain silent.

A digital adviser named Ilona, for example, set up a regular schedule for calling & texting her friends - which supported her most serious relationships at the cost of some of the more lightweight touches many have come to expect. "In the end, I just accepted the fact that I would miss some vents in their lives, but that this was worthwhile for the mental energy it would save me to not be on social media.

The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they're friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they're just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children.5 Because, let's face it, checking your "likes" is the new smoking.

Sizin zaman?n?z ve dikkatiniz üzerinden kâr elde eden ?irketler, ustaca kulland?klar? bir pazarlama hilesi sayesinde bugün herkesi ?una inand?rm?? vaziyetteler: Sosyal medyada yer almad???n?zda mutlaka bir ?eyleri kaç?r?r, bir ?eylerden mahrum kal?rs?n?z.

This button introduced a rich new stream of social approval indicators that arrive in an unpredictable fashion—creating an almost impossibly appealing impulse to keep checking your account. It also provided Facebook much more detailed information on your preferences, allowing their machine-learning algorithms to digest your humanity into statistical slivers that could then be mined to push you toward targeted ads and stickier content.

Anlaml? içerik üretmek büyük çaba gerektirir ve ancak bu çaban?n kar??l???nda insanlar?n ilgisini kazan?rs?n?z; sosyal medya ise insanlara çaba göstermeden ilgi toplama imkan? sunuyor.

Finally, as detailed in the first part of these book, many of these tools are engineered to hijack our social instincts to create an addictive allure. When you spend multiple hours a day compulsively clicking & swiping, there's much less free time left for slower interactions. And because this compulsive use emits a patina of socialness, it can delude you into thinking that you're already serving your relationships well, making further action unnecessary.

novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a piece for the Guardian calling Twitter a "coercive development" in the literary world,

Jordan had a name for the worries about what his friends are doing with their lives and whether his accomplishments compare favorably: "the cloud of external distractions.