{"id":23781,"date":"2023-07-16T07:49:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theme-dev.cmsmasters.net\/newspaper\/?p=23781"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:06:07","slug":"the-infinite-deaths-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/?p=23781","title":{"rendered":"The Infinite Deaths of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"23781\" class=\"elementor elementor-23781\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d21b10b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default cmsmasters-block-default\" data-id=\"d21b10b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-293ced6\" data-id=\"293ced6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22623da cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22623da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. <a href=\"#\">The languages<\/a> only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-7202542 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default cmsmasters-block-default\" data-id=\"7202542\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-a552fce\" data-id=\"a552fce\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c164842 cmsmasters-effect cmsmasters-effect-type-transform cmsmasters-effect-hover-type-element cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c164842\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;cms_transform_hover_type&quot;:&quot;element&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Elon Musk wrote that his goal is to help Twitter fulfill its &#8220;potential to become a platform for free speech around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5644c14 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5644c14\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hyperbole is Instinctual on Twitter<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bb5351 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4bb5351\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple.\n\nIt will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1e35c7 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f1e35c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22744\" alt=\"post\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20.jpg 760w, https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20-430x300.jpg 430w, https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20-30x21.jpg 30w, https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/post-content-20-14x10.jpg 14w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0a2e31 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c0a2e31\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Endings Can  Be an Animating Force<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6489693 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6489693\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4888aa7 cmsmasters-tabs-responsive-tablet cmsmasters-tabs-type-horizontal cmsmasters-tab-list-mode-inline cmsmasters-list-item-alignment-left cmsmasters-icon-position-left cmsmasters-tabs-position-start cmsmasters-list-ver-align-bottom cmsmasters-icon-view-default cmsmasters-pointer-none cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-cmsmasters-tabs cmsmasters-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"4888aa7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tabs&quot;:[{&quot;tab_title&quot;:&quot; Cultural Force&quot;,&quot;tab_content&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;What Twitter is today is not necessarily the best or most useful version of what is possible for users moving forward. The more fascinating outcome of Musk\\u2019s acquisition, and a potential exodus of users, is how it might give rise to the next iteration of the social internet somewhere else.&lt;\\\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;e9c2616&quot;,&quot;content_type&quot;:&quot;tab-content&quot;,&quot;saved_section&quot;:null,&quot;tab_subtitle&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;tab_icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;tab_custom_id&quot;:&quot;&quot;},{&quot;tab_title&quot;:&quot;Digital Age&quot;,&quot;tab_content&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;The inevitably of Twitter\\u2019s end should not be cause for despair\\u2014there is excitement in what awaits us on the other side, in what comes next. That, for me, has always been the addictive charm of the social internet: that we continually find new ways to interact, create, be. That no matter what, we never stagnate.&lt;\\\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;c6a9a2c&quot;,&quot;content_type&quot;:&quot;tab-content&quot;,&quot;saved_section&quot;:null,&quot;tab_subtitle&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;tab_icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;tab_custom_id&quot;:&quot;&quot;},{&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;c2b6a94&quot;,&quot;tab_content&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;One of the many things inherent in the digital age\\u2014and especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constant\\u2014is the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral. Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not.&lt;\\\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;tab_title&quot;:&quot;Social Media&quot;,&quot;content_type&quot;:&quot;tab-content&quot;,&quot;saved_section&quot;:null,&quot;tab_subtitle&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;tab_icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;tab_custom_id&quot;:&quot;&quot;},{&quot;tab_content&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not. One of the many things inherent in the digital age\\u2014and especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constant\\u2014is the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral.\\u00a0&lt;\\\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;tab_title&quot;:&quot;Your Future&quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;6efa966&quot;,&quot;content_type&quot;:&quot;tab-content&quot;,&quot;saved_section&quot;:null,&quot;tab_subtitle&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;tab_icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;tab_custom_id&quot;:&quot;&quot;}],&quot;tabs_responsive&quot;:&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;tabs_type&quot;:&quot;horizontal&quot;,&quot;default_tab&quot;:1,&quot;tabs_responsive_choose&quot;:&quot;accordion&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"cmsmasters-tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cmsmasters-tabs\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list\" role=\"tablist\"><li id=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item_7601\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><h6 class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \"> Cultural Force<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/li><li id=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item_7602\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><h6 class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \">Digital Age<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/li><li id=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item_7603\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><h6 class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \">Social Media<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/li><li id=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item_7604\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><h6 class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \">Your Future<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n\t\t<\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-wrap\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-wrap\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div id=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-7601\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-accordion-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \"> Cultural Force<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div id=\"cmsmasters-tab-content_7601\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab\" data-tab=\"1\"><p>What Twitter is today is not necessarily the best or most useful version of what is possible for users moving forward. The more fascinating outcome of Musk\u2019s acquisition, and a potential exodus of users, is how it might give rise to the next iteration of the social internet somewhere else.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-wrap\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div id=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-7602\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-accordion-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \">Digital Age<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div id=\"cmsmasters-tab-content_7602\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab\" data-tab=\"2\"><p>The inevitably of Twitter\u2019s end should not be cause for despair\u2014there is excitement in what awaits us on the other side, in what comes next. That, for me, has always been the addictive charm of the social internet: that we continually find new ways to interact, create, be. That no matter what, we never stagnate.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-wrap\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div id=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-7603\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-accordion-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \">Social Media<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div id=\"cmsmasters-tab-content_7603\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab\" data-tab=\"3\"><p>One of the many things inherent in the digital age\u2014and especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constant\u2014is the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral. Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-wrap\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div id=\"cmsmasters-accordion-item-7604\" class=\"cmsmasters-tabs-list-item cmsmasters-accordion-item cmsmasters-animation\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><a href=\"\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title\" tabindex=\"-1\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap-outer\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text-wrap\"><div class=\"cmsmasters-tab-title__text \">Your Future<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><div id=\"cmsmasters-tab-content_7604\" class=\"cmsmasters-tab\" data-tab=\"4\"><p>Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not. One of the many things inherent in the digital age\u2014and especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constant\u2014is the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d07be6e cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d07be6e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple.\n\nIt will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d974280 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-cmsmasters-pinterest\" data-id=\"d974280\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"cmsmasters-pinterest.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-cmsmasters-pinterest__wrapper\" style=\"min-height: 1px\"><a id=\"d974280\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/269582727684204516\/\" data-pin-do=\"embedPin\" data-pin-width=\"m\" data-pin-terse=\"true\"><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e718ee9 cmsmasters-block-default cmsmasters-sticky-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e718ee9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. <a href=\"#\">The languages<\/a> only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators.\n\nThe languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. <a href=\"#\">Everyone realizes<\/a> why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and <a href=\"#\">more common words.<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the prevailing narratives to surface from the news of Elon Musk buying Twitter\u2014in a culture-shaking deal worth $44 billion\u2014was that the end, in some form, had arrived for the pioneering social media site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[42,47,75],"post_template":[83],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-23781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-ideas","tag-work","post_template-opinion","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28577,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23781\/revisions\/28577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23781"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_template&post=23781"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdz.wksocial.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftop_category&post=23781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}