# Ian Bogost in The Atlantic: People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much

**URL:** https://community.spritely.institute/t/ian-bogost-in-the-atlantic-people-aren-t-meant-to-talk-this-much/93
**Category:** Social Framing
**Created:** [March 4, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/ian-bogost-in-the-atlantic-people-aren-t-meant-to-talk-this-much/93 "2022-03-04T15:30:59Z")
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#### Post date: [March 4, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/ian-bogost-in-the-atlantic-people-aren-t-meant-to-talk-this-much/93/1 "2022-03-04T15:30:59Z")

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> **[People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1LzJz2yMntrzylUEGtyYM7m-KX7-DQA7RXZ7SutKrAkPvpHMtkADwaaB4)**
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> Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.

“Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.”

First time I’ve seen Granovetter mentioned outside of a Mark Miller-connected context.