In 2022, “the entire Internet began to feel something like a dying mall populated only by stores you don’t want to visit,” chaykak writes. Here are the apps that lost their appeal this year.
If the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were an orgy of digital technology—heralding the renaissance of video meetings, the explosion of on-demand exercise classes, and the birth of new streaming platforms—2022 was a yearlong comedown as we suffered the effects of our Internet gorging. Vaccines and boosters gave us the freedom to do more than stare at yet another screen. Physical isolation was traded for raucous communion in packed restaurants over suddenly trendy Martinis .
Our collective digital exhaustion may have been compounded by the fact that tech companies this year acted sketchier than ever. Even before the, the crypto world had lost its momentum in a series of crashes; obscure currencies and N.F.T.s no longer seemed so appealing. The major social networks were foundering, too. To keep us interested, they scrambled to make themselves over in TikTok’s image or tried to drag us kicking and screaming into the metaverse.
became less appealing when I realized that when the alert went off I usually wasn’t doing anything interesting, and neither was anyone else. On social media there’s such a thing as too much authenticity.Twitter has long been referred to as a “hell site,” but the weeks that followed Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company marked a nadir for social media—or perhaps a climax, depending on how prone you are to Schadenfreude.
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