What Anne Helen Petersen thinks about social media

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Journalist and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Writes the newsletter Culture Study, which runs a recurring links-and-recommendations issue.

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1. 17 Aug 2025

   Our readingYears of social media use have conditioned people to view online communication primarily as a space for conflict or political policing.

   Their wordsAnd while I hoped for something approximating that, we had all been directly and indirectly warped by years of Twitter, conditioned to understand the primary purpose of online communication as fight club or political purity policing.

   ↗What a flex, to have curious readers!annehelen.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece