Social media is engineered to constantly adapt to our interests. We know that the “free” social media platforms we use aren’t really free, because, as the saying goes, you’re not the customer but the product being sold. I love windswept Scottish beaches at dusk more passionately than anything I can ever remember encountering on social media. In TS Eliot’s words, we are “distracted from distraction by distraction”. For example, you can make your devices as unexciting as possible – first by removing social media apps, even email if you dare, and then by switching the screen from colour to greyscale.

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2021 07:52 UTC