10 Aug 2025

Posting ennui: Is social media getting less social?

From Sunday Morning, 11:42 am on 10 August 2025

Have you noticed a drop in breakfast photos and random musings on your social media pages? It’s not just you, people seem to be posting less and reclaiming some privacy in the digital realm, meanwhile we are left with influencers and content producers filling up the feeds.

Kyle Chayka writes for the New Yorker about technology and culture on the internet. He joins Jim to talk about the retreat from sharing our lives online. 

A woman using the Instagram app on her cellphone.

Photo: Unsplash/ Kate Torlin