Foreshadowing An Internet Health crisis

There's a lot of words out there on the Internet about the inherit goodness or badness of our current behaviors within the realms of social media. Many times it is rather doom and gloom and often it doesn't provide suggested solutions, insights or even context to the overall takeaways.

That being said, Michael Marinaccio's piece Foreshadowing an internet health crisis manages to check all the right boxes. It's insightful, contextual and even provides some guides for the future. It's also not entirely doom and gloom, though there's certainly an understandable amount in there.

Concentrated eyeball time reading a piece about how the Internet is draining us is likely not at the top of anyone's priority list but it's worth it, probably more than once.

It covers a lot. It's a great articulation on "image-based" culture (not jpegs and gifs but perception itself), corporations and politicians role in gatekeeping and the general concerns around the mass consumption we all now participate in. I promise it's not a complete bummer but it is something we should all give some brain cycles to.