[jc6]

Michael Goldharber - People have limited attention to give anything, but unlimited capacity to receive attention.

The Attention Economy has been inflated exploiting the above inequality.

Bottom line is the social media is not designed to optimize allocation of limited Global Human Attention. It does a fine job squandering it. And people are begining to notice.

[winternett]

Social media destroys the value of intellect because it limits the initial exposure of posts strategically in an unfairly tiered manner based on popularity. There is no real way to reach others unless you cheat or pay for ads now.

There is no real logical explanation to it's utility any more, as it serves as a casino for scams and ads, it's really no longer a forum for delivering important information and developing reputation in my opinion, because the popularity garnered on these platforms can easily be bought, forged, plagiarized, and sold on the black market, and often if you're highly controversial.

Even the people getting attention these days know their popularity only lasts for seconds at a time, there is nothing durable, and most social media clout is also not very memorable in the long term. Eventually {hopefully} real life interactions will become more important again after the sheen of tech manipulation on art and news wears off.