{"id":809,"date":"2025-07-27T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muncbiz.com\/socialmedia\/?p=809"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:12:44","slug":"why-is-social-media-not-fun-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muncbiz.com\/socialmedia\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"why is social media not fun anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mwIYwsONFes\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Head to http:\/\/squarespace.com\/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain!<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 NEWSLETTER \/ ESSAYS<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/minale.substack.com\/<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 PRODUCTION<br \/>\nwritten by Mina Le<br \/>\nedited by Charlee Reiff<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 SOCIALS<br \/>\nInstagram: http:\/\/instagram.com\/gremlita<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gremlita<br \/>\nLetterboxd: http:\/\/boxd.it\/7YgX<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 CONTACT<br \/>\nBusiness email: MinaLeTeam@WMEAgency.com<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 SOURCES<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BDfKfkYg3G\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/okwnews.com\/news\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/black-mirror-or-black-hole-american-phone-screen-time-statistics\/\">Black Mirror or Black Hole? American Phone Screen Time Statistics<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Black Mirror or Black Hole? American Phone Screen Time Statistics&#8221; &#8212; OKW News\" src=\"https:\/\/okwnews.com\/news\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/black-mirror-or-black-hole-american-phone-screen-time-statistics\/embed\/#?secret=pFWCa7OqTr#?secret=BDfKfkYg3G\" data-secret=\"BDfKfkYg3G\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman<br \/>\nOversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age by Ben Agger<br \/>\nPortraits in Life and Death (Intro) by Susan Sontag<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/mark.kerrigan.co\/posts\/2024\/portraits-in-life-and-death.pdf<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-weekend-essay\/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/wild-fans-outraged-tiktok-influencers-012801362.html<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sincerity: Hollywood&#039;s Forgotten Currency\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DuTwM6jB9JY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xEi8qg266g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artworks\/duchamp-fountain-t07573<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/heartfield\/<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch Kamala Harris&#039; viral &quot;coconut tree&quot; remarks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bSTqokjNEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.readloosey.com\/p\/have-we-all-lost-our-minds?selection=7107ba8e-ddb2-4b71-9dc6-e594cac43ab3<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-toxic-ideas-online-irony-analysis.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e5a5140-8f17-4a37-b1c8-34f0d72746bc_750x562.jpeg<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/why-irony-bro<br \/>\nE Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/literacy_report.pdf<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/07\/tech\/meta-censorship-moderation\/index.html<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/substack.com\/inbox\/post\/155290235?utm_source=unread-posts-digest-email&#038;inbox=true&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;triedRedirect=true<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/embedded.substack.com\/p\/you-might-just-have-to-be-bored<\/p>\n<p>0:00 &#8211; intro<br \/>\n3:36 &#8211; when social media was fun<br \/>\n15:18 &#8211; the algorithm<br \/>\n23:09 &#8211; the irony problem<br \/>\n35:59 &#8211; conclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head to http:\/\/squarespace.com\/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! \u27a4 NEWSLETTER \/ ESSAYS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/muncbiz.com\/socialmedia\/?p=809\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"why is social media not fun anymore? 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