Thread · 2 tweets · 16 Sept 2018

First, I would refrain from considering social media as the Internet's final form. Social media is heavily rooted in an economic model that is very dependent on a set of technological assumptions that are a major ongoing battleground. Whoever carries that will change social media

To your question though, I think it helps foster multiple overlapping identities. I think the mainstream identities are more uniform (everyone makes cat jokes, worldwide), but the smaller ones are more diverse because they can have communities that were impossible before.