In The Future, Our Attention Will Be Sold - Mark Manson on Social Media

LongElm · 2014-12-08T16:42:31+00:00

It's a long read, so I'll sum up the good parts:

The internet is not ruining us, it's changing the basics of our economies in our day to day lives
Overtime, the focal point of conversation in society has went from valuing food, land, knowledge and now attention
The scarcity of attention in the internet-age is why successful attention seekers like Kim Kardashian profits in society.
"The attention economy rewards people who are narcissistic and self-promotional because these people excel at getting attention"
"Threats such as Ebola or terrorism become sensationalized, not because they’re actually that threatening, but because of their extremity and how much attention they garner."
The all important life skill in the internet age will be how we choose to garner focus

This brings value to you, my humble brother, to use social media to our advantage to be the perfect version of ourselves. It's easy to get side tracked and turn our attention to useless information that does not serve us. The internet is not going away. Use the internet to benefit your mental, physical and emotional well being. In return, we can give value to others in unexpected ways. Just my two cents

8sweettooth8 · 2014-12-09T09:24:21+00:00

Awesome long read. Well worth it. Thanks for sharing.

Many people are already aware of this but it is nice to have someone really put it into perspective. It's a shame, however, that there are people that are blind to this happening. I refer to them as the sheep of society.

ThrowawayPUA · 2014-12-08T21:17:02+00:00

In the future? This is already happening.

zomgitsduke · 2014-12-08T19:53:59+00:00

There's a TV show called Black Mirror, its on Netflix. The episode you should watch is "fifteen million merits", it gives a disturbing twist on this post's ideas.

Title	In The Future, Our Attention Will Be Sold - Mark Manson on Social Media
Author	LongElm
Upvotes	18
Comments	11
Date	December 8, 2014 4:31 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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