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 In response to Ian Bogost's article of  The Age of Social Media Is Ending Gabrielle Edenia 013201900023 What is Bogost's main argument about social media? According to Bogost, it's a terrible idea to build systems that are intended only to produce an infinite stream of material since it is intrinsically tied to the idea of social media. Social media's primary goal was to connect people, not to create. The core purpose of social networks was networking: establishing or fostering connections, first mostly with familiar relatives. It's simple to forget how really miraculous this breakthrough seemed when it first came out because of the negativity of social media. Social networks, which were previously only potential touch points, developed into content superhighways. Their social networking features have been relegated to the background in their most recent iteration. As an instance on TikTok, users are more likely to just plug into a continuous flow of video material...