Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media

🫧 Open on Bubbles I will read anything danah boyd writes, but this piece is especially good. You should (as I say too often I guess) read the whole thing —it’s about how social media has changed from interacting with friends to a one-sided marketplace of choosing who to deem worthy of giving them our “like and subscribe” blessing. But here I just want to say: can we please, somehow, bring back [Path]( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network) ? Because it solved this problem a decade ago: In 2026,