Social media’s herd-intensification may impede individual development at population scale

Evidence

This artificial intensification of homing to the herd can only complicate, delay, or impede the hard psychological bargain of the self-other balance. When we multiply this effect by hundreds of millions and distribute it across the globe, what might it portend for the prospects of human and societal development? — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1488

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Generation Z’s constant social media use creates an outside-looking-in dependency on others for identity — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1425; Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1463; Social media is the first global experiment testing a human hive — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 72 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Generation Z’s constant social media use creates an outside-looking-in dependency on others for identity #exemplifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1425
• Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. #expands (0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1463