We are heading for social media burnout
With Meta’s Twitter rival Threads comes yet another online profile to maintain. Exhaustion will ensue.
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Chris Stokel-Walker
Chris Stokel-Walker is the author of YouTubers and writes regularly for Wired, the New York Times and Newsweek.
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