Social Media and the Effects of Context Collapse

<p>Long before I stumbled upon the phrase &ldquo;context collapse,&rdquo; I witnessed the paradigm shift of younger users&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-lost-15-million-us-users-in-the-past-two-years-report-says/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">abandoning social media stalwarts like Facebook&nbsp;</a>or Twitter for, at the time, smaller, more &ldquo;artisanal&rdquo; platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook soon became the site used to check-in with your parents or post an important announcement like a pregnancy or new home.</p> <p>What caused the exodus? Was it just the typical lifecycle of a social media site, and Facebook was going the way of Friendster and Myspace? I don&rsquo;t believe so.</p> <p><a href="https://jasonmbartz.medium.com/understanding-context-collapse-and-the-restoration-of-our-walled-gardens-1325bf527cf"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>