Get Used to Technology Burnout
Social media fatigue is here, but this isn't the first or last time technology has overburdened humans
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"Let’s get this straight up front: I am now writing a blog post, not blogging a blog," writes Forrest Wickman at Slate, the good people who brought you the great two-spaces-after-a-period debate. Oh yes. Oh yes. They are at it again, this time with a post in which he takes on the matter of what to call this thing we do.
Social media fatigue is here, but this isn't the first or last time technology has overburdened humans
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