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We all love a good Twitter scroll (at least for now) or an unnecessary long TikTok binge, but occasionally these binges become formulaic and boring. Our feeds become redundant and it doesn’t take much for the algorithm to spiral down a hole of ideas. David Pierce, A Verge Writer, once wrote that when his social media feed descends into placid boringness, he starts “slowly degrading back into a morass from which I will try and extricate myself next year.” If that doesn’t tell you something about the echo chamber media feeds, then I don’t know what does.
Our social media feeds are complex and infinite. They are online spaces that are curated by algorithm data that predict what we like. By tracking our every move, social media will seamlessly find and give us content that is, as TikTok so presciently states, “for you.” It seems that our decision to double tap or swipe up has bigger consequences than we think.
And members of Gen Z, myself included, are anxious to see social media structures dismantled and reformed into something that we don’t have to fear. .