Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 hours agoWho You Know Shapes What You Believe
Close social networks shape beliefs, but one differing view can broaden perspective and reduce extremity.
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fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology
The hardest friendships to maintain aren't the ones with conflict. They're the ones where both people are growing but in different directions, and neither person is wrong, and there's no argument to have, just a slow widening that nobody caused and nobody can fix. - Silicon Canals
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe hardest friendships to maintain aren't the ones with conflict. They're the ones where both people are growing but in different directions, and neither person is wrong, and there's no argument to have, just a slow widening that nobody caused and nobody can fix. - Silicon Canals
Friendships often end due to gradual emotional distance rather than specific events, highlighting the importance of recognizing blameless drift.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPeople who keep their circle small aren't antisocial. They genuinely learned that intimacy and popularity are opposing forces, even though loneliness occasionally shows up as the cost of admission - Silicon Canals
Intimacy and popularity are competing pursuits; small social circles reflect a natural structure of human relationships, not a failure of social development.
#aging
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says people who become harder to be around as they get older aren't becoming more miserable - they're becoming less willing to absorb other people's discomfort at the expense of their own - Silicon Canals
Older adults prioritize emotionally meaningful relationships, leading to smaller social circles and active pruning of less fulfilling connections.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says people who reach their 60s without a large circle of friends aren't lonely - they're the ones who figured out the one relationship truth that emotionally intelligent people swear by, which is that one person who truly sees you is worth more than a hundred people who only know your name - Silicon Canals
Aging often leads to fewer but deeper friendships, resulting in better well-being rather than increased loneliness.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says people who become harder to be around as they get older aren't becoming more miserable - they're becoming less willing to absorb other people's discomfort at the expense of their own - Silicon Canals
Older adults prioritize emotionally meaningful relationships, leading to smaller social circles and active pruning of less fulfilling connections.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says people who reach their 60s without a large circle of friends aren't lonely - they're the ones who figured out the one relationship truth that emotionally intelligent people swear by, which is that one person who truly sees you is worth more than a hundred people who only know your name - Silicon Canals
Aging often leads to fewer but deeper friendships, resulting in better well-being rather than increased loneliness.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoI worked in the same building for fifteen years, knew everyone's name, attended every retirement party-and when I left, three people texted me goodbye, and I realized proximity had been doing all the work our friendships were supposed to be doing - Silicon Canals
Workplace relationships rely heavily on proximity rather than genuine connection, and most dissolve when that proximity ends.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
3 weeks agoMeta acquires AI-driven social network Moltbook
Meta acquired Moltbook, an AI-powered social network where bot profiles interact with each other, as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's strategy to expand AI development and deploy AI agents across Meta's platforms.
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Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
3 weeks agoMeta is buying Moltbook, the ridiculous social network populated by AI bots
Meta acquires Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents, with its creators joining Meta Superintelligence Labs to develop new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks agoMeta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts | TechCrunch
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents using OpenClaw, integrating it into Meta Superintelligence Labs with creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr joining the team.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
3 weeks agoMeta is buying Moltbook, the ridiculous social network populated by AI bots
Meta acquires Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents, with its creators joining Meta Superintelligence Labs to develop new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks agoMeta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts | TechCrunch
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents using OpenClaw, integrating it into Meta Superintelligence Labs with creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr joining the team.
Media industry
fromFast Company
4 weeks agoHow conspiracy theories spread before the internet, according to Tracy Letts's 'Bug' on Broadway
Conspiracy theories spread like diseases through social networks, and Tracy Letts's play Bug explored this psychological phenomenon three decades before the internet age made misinformation virality a critical social problem.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoYou don't need dozens of friends: the research on how many close connections actually matter - Silicon Canals
Ever wonder why you're exhausted trying to maintain relationships with everyone from your high school lab partner to that person you met at a conference three years ago? Here's something that might surprise you: anthropologist Robin Dunbar's research suggests our brains can only handle about 150 social connections, and of those, only five make up our innermost circle. That's right, five.
Relationships
fromwww.nature.com
2 months agoStaying inside the bubble: the unequal consequences of limiting weak ties during the COVID-19 pandemic
Aaslund H (2021) Stay safe, stay home? Social work reflections on the nature of home. Qual Soc Work 20:7476. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020985386 Google Scholar Alon T, Coskun S, Doepke M, Koll D, Tertilt M (2022) From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions. NBER Macroecon Ann 36(1):83151. https://doi.org/10.1086/718660 Google Scholar Bakshy E, Messing S, Adamic LA (2015) Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science 348:11301132.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 months agoHow Influential People Map Their Social World
What do social climbers and gossipmongers have in common? My mother would tell me that both are morally suspect. This moral umbrage is etched into lessons from fairy tales and scripture that we readily pass on to our children: Avoid the schemer and the whisperer. But stories are known to simplify reality. The truth is that that the most effective gossipers and social climbers possess a remarkable grasp of social structure, knowledge they use to cleverly navigate their social worlds.
Psychology
Social media marketing
fromBusiness Insider
7 months agoResearchers built a social network made of AI bots. They quickly formed cliques, amplified extremes, and let a tiny elite dominate.
AI bots created a toxic social environment mimicking real-world social media without algorithms or recommendations.
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