{"id":8517,"date":"2023-01-05T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/enough-with-the-year-in-review-app-alerts-here-are-the-online-habits-i-really-want-to-track-in-2023-michael-sun\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T08:37:27","slug":"enough-with-the-year-in-review-app-alerts-here-are-the-online-habits-i-really-want-to-track-in-2023-michael-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/enough-with-the-year-in-review-app-alerts-here-are-the-online-habits-i-really-want-to-track-in-2023-michael-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the year-in-review app alerts: here are the online habits I really want to track in 2023 | Michael Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annual wraps remind me I\u2019m tethered to my phone like a sad puppy. So give me a round-up from the app with the plainest of truths<\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks a particularly pernicious form of alert has been clogging up our phones. It is the beast with many heads \u2013 all of which are designed to attack me specifically \u2013 morphing into different shapes and appearing in the least expected of places. It is the year in review: the content sent out by our favourite and least favourite apps to confirm how much we have depended on them in the past 12 months; how much we are tethered to them like sad puppies waiting for treats (notifications) from our masters.<\/p>\n

Spotify is the progenitor of this degrading trend: its annual Wrapped began in 2016, when seeing all your data crunched by a corporation was \u201cfun\u201d instead of \u201ca haunting reminder of surveillance capitalism\u201d. With its aggressive kookiness and promises of personal branding, it became a hit among those of us who defined our entire lives by consumption \u2013 not the chic kind<\/a> that befalls a waify Victorian heroine, but a consumption far more prosaic. Suddenly, listening to your depression playlist on repeat 50 times wasn\u2019t just cause for concern, it was also a shareable, snackable badge of pride.<\/p>\n

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\nAnnual wraps remind me I\u2019m tethered to my phone like a sad puppy. So give me a round-up from the app with the plainest of truths
\nOver the last few weeks a particularly pernicious form of alert has been clogging up our phones. It is the beast with many heads \u2013 all of which are designed to attack me specifically \u2013 morphing into different shapes and appearing in the least expected of places. It is the year in review: the content sent out by our favourite and least favourite apps to confirm how much we have depended on them in the past 12 months; how much we are tethered to them like sad puppies waiting for treats (notifications) from our masters.
\nSpotify is the progenitor of this degrading trend: its annual Wrapped began in 2016, when seeing all your data crunched by a corporation was \u201cfun\u201d instead of \u201ca haunting reminder of surveillance capitalism\u201d. With its aggressive kookiness and promises of personal branding, it became a hit among those of us who defined our entire lives by consumption \u2013 not the chic kind that befalls a waify Victorian heroine, but a consumption far more prosaic. Suddenly, listening to your depression playlist on repeat 50 times wasn\u2019t just cause for concern, it was also a shareable, snackable badge of pride. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annual wraps remind me I\u2019m tethered to my phone like a sad puppy. So give me a round-up from the app with the plainest of truths Over the last few weeks a particularly pernicious form of alert has been clogging up our phones. It is the beast with many heads \u2013 all of which are …<\/p>\n

Enough with the year-in-review app alerts: here are the online habits I really want to track in 2023 | Michael Sun<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}