This is a new recording of an essay originally published in June 2022: <a href="https://livingchurch.org/covenant/social-media-that-doesnt-shrink-your-soul">livingchurch.org/covenant/…</a>
Social media is a form of the unexamined life Socrates warned us about.
But does it have to be so? Are the current popular iterations of social media, which I will refer to as Big Social, our only option for consuming information, connecting with friends and strangers, and developing bonds across borders and oceans?
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This is a new recording of an essay originally published in June 2022: livingchurch.org/covenant/… Social media is a form of the unexamined life Socrates warned us about. But does it have to be so? Are the current popular iterations of social media, which I will refer to as Big Social, our only option for consuming information, connecting with friends and strangers, and developing bonds across borders and oceans? Transcript

This is a new recording of an essay originally published in June 2022: <a href="https://livingchurch.org/covenant/social-media-that-doesnt-shrink-your-soul" rel="noopener noreferrer">livingchurch.org/covenant/…</a>
Social media is a form of the unexamined life Socrates warned us about.
But does it have to be so? Are the current popular iterations of social media, which I will refer to as Big Social, our only option for consuming information, connecting with friends and strangers, and developing bonds across borders and oceans?

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Social Media that doesn't shrink your soul?

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