# #social-media — Jan Wilmake's Blog Posts tagged with **social-media** ## Posts - ["Human-to-Human Content Generation: Embracing the Social Computing Age"](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/social-computing.md): 11/14/2023 - Explores the concept of transforming everyday conversations into various forms of digital content through AI-powered "Chatcasts," ushering in the age of social computing. - [What I think Facebook should do](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/what-facebook-should-do.md): 9/18/2020 - A proposal for Facebook to offer a premium ad-free subscription that helps users achieve their personal goals by curating content based on their values, rather than maximizing screen time. - [Why I made FriendTime](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/why-i-made-dunbar.md): 10/27/2019 - The journey from creating an addictive mafia game to building FriendTime, an app designed to bring people together in real life and maintain meaningful relationships. - [The Human Network Explosion](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/human-network-explosion.md): 5/24/2019 - How urbanization and modern communication have caused a Human Network Explosion that our brains aren't designed to handle, potentially leading to increased mental and physical health problems. - [What would a social network that's actually good for humanity look like?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/what-would-a-social-network-thats-actually-good-for-humanity-look-like.md): 3/19/2019 - Envisioning a humane social network with activity-first design, verified identities, small communities, layered sharing, freemium model, and government-enforced open standards. - [Why I can't quit Facebook](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/why-i-cant-quit-facebook.md): 2/5/2019 - Exploring the challenges of quitting Facebook including timeline memories, contact management, event invitations, FOMO, and the addictive nature of algorithmic content bubbles. - [In search for the perfect Communication App for Co-Working spaces: Slack, Facebook groups, and beyond](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/networking-coworking.md): 11/14/2018 - An analysis of communication tools in coworking spaces, comparing Slack, Facebook Groups, and LinkedIn, and introducing Communify as a purpose-built platform for fostering local collaboration and community. - [The dark side of globalization](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/the-dark-side-of-globalization.md): 4/2/2018 - A critical reflection on the risks of global internet uniformity and platform manipulation, arguing that decentralized regional diversity provides safer experimentation for humanity. - [Collaborations in the coworking space often rely on coincidence](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/collaborations-in-the-coworking-space.md): 3/7/2018 - Observations on how professional collaborations in coworking spaces still rely heavily on coincidence, and why location-based networking platforms are needed for digital nomads. - [Justified Dopamine](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/justified-dopamine.md): 12/27/2017 - Seeking dopamine from productive activities like work and exercise rather than quick hacks like social media, gaming, and sugar to align with long-term goals. - [What if dopamine triggers fuck up your long-term productivity?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/what-if-dopamine-triggers-fuck-up-your-long-term-productivity.md): 12/12/2017 - An exploration of how short-term dopamine triggers like social media and food act as distractions that harm long-term productivity, arguing for eliminating these distractions rather than relying on willpower to resist them. - [The basis: what comes after happiness?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-basis-what-comes-after-happiness.md): 11/20/2017 - Moving beyond the pursuit of happiness by understanding and mastering our impulses, creating stable habits to focus on bigger issues like the planet. - [Is Facebook as addictive as Heroin?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/facebook-heroin.md): 10/18/2017 - A critical analysis comparing Facebook's addictive nature to heroin, examining how social media algorithms designed for user retention may be turning people into zombies with shortened attention spans and reduced real-world value. - [Google makes us creative, but also more self-determined](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/internet-makes-us-creative.md): 7/20/2017 - How Google encourages creativity through positive feedback but creates echo chambers that make us more self-determined yet less open-minded. - [Today I uninstalled WhatsApp to save 40 minutes a day](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/drop-whatsapp-save-40-minutes.md): 7/11/2017 - Uninstalling WhatsApp to save 40 minutes daily and focus on deep, goal-oriented work by separating core activities from less important distractions. - [Notification-zombies](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/notification-zombies.md): 6/17/2017 - A critique of how notifications turn people into zombies who lose control over their attention, with statistics on smartphone usage and a recommendation to turn off all notifications to reclaim mental freedom. - [Elephant-shit](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/invisible-elephant-shit.md): 5/6/2017 - A critical examination of how commercial media prioritizes emotion-driven content over truth, using the metaphor of elephant shit to illustrate how news coverage often amplifies fear while ignoring more significant issues. - [Internet connects the unconnected, but disconnects the connected](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-internet-connects-the-unconnected-but-disconnects-the-connected.md): 5/6/2017 - A philosophical exploration of how the internet paradoxically brings distant people together while driving physically close people apart, contributing to rising individualism and weaker community ties globally. - [Cycling through your life: Communicate, Adapt & Get shit done](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/distractions.md): 4/24/2017 - Balancing communication, learning, and getting things done by tracking and limiting distractions from social media and browsers to improve productivity. - [How to solve attention pollution and cure your love/hate relationship with your smartphone](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/smartphone-attention-pollution.md): 4/24/2017 - An analysis of attention pollution caused by smartphones and how internet enables distractions across all time and space, arguing that we should focus only on information that drives action here and now.