{"id":4952,"date":"2025-10-28T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=zine&#038;p=4952"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:04:52","slug":"how-to-get-off-social-media-and-still-keep-in-touch-with-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"zine","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/zine\/how-to-get-off-social-media-and-still-keep-in-touch-with-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Off Social Media and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-button  root-eb-button-d9nzu\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-button-d9nzu \"><div class=\"eb-button-wrapper eb-button-alignment eb-button-d9nzu\"><div class=\"eb-button\"><div class=\"eb-button-inner-wrapper \"><a class=\"eb-button-anchor hvr-shrink  \" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/2839\" rel=\"noopener\">Click for ZINE source!<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">graphical ideas for strengthening your bonds!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">With a strategy&nbsp;for maintaining your&nbsp;relationships outside the confines of the internet, this little zine is part personal reflection on the merits of unplugging and part instruction manual for successfully extricating yourself from the ever-more-nightmarish world of social media. Author Sylvia Friday reflects on the uses of social media, and offers a critique of the ways that social media (especially for artists) has reduced&nbsp;art&nbsp;to a vacuous process of the&nbsp;capitalist cult of productivity. Friday calls for us to embrace snail mail and the beauty of ink and paper as a way to slow down, be creative in new and different ways, and engage more meaningfully with our friends through the process of writing&nbsp;physical letters on actual pieces of paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">makes me wanna revisit getting off of ALL social media, period (i am off for the most part)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">i wanna send letters again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">anyway you can actually read the whole zine on the website, i just have it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>graphical ideas for strengthening your bonds! With a strategy&nbsp;for maintaining your&nbsp;relationships outside the confines of the internet, this little zine is part personal reflection on the merits of unplugging and part instruction manual for successfully extricating yourself from the ever-more-nightmarish world of social media. Author Sylvia Friday reflects on the uses of social media, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4953,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[689],"genre":[],"rating":[310],"smut_stuff":[],"trigger_warning":[],"class_list":["post-4952","zine","type-zine","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zines","rating-310"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zine\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zine"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zine\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zine\/4952\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"smut_stuff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/smut_stuff?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"trigger_warning","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trigger_warning?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}