Can ‘dark socials’ tackle fears around self-expression?
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10 Mar 2022
Can ‘dark socials’ tackle fears around self-expression?

From Instagram’s ‘Close Friends’ to Twitter’s ‘Flock’, privacy on social media is something that people are craving more and more. While concerns around data privacy continue, the move to less public social platforms reveals an appetite for greater play and freer forms of self-expression.

Jess Canje

Jess Canje is a freelance social media consultant based between New York and Paris.

Marios Mystidis

Marios Mystidis is a social community editor at Dazed in London.

Vanessa Hsieh

Vanessa Hsieh is a content editor at Dazed in London.

Günseli Yalçinkaya

An expert in youth and internet culture, London-based writer, researcher, and critic Günseli Yalçinkaya is the features editor at Dazed and the host of Logged On, a podcast series that puts online trends under the microscope. She’s written extensively about AI, VR, and psychedelia, and as an artist, she studies the relationship between ecology, magic, and machine learning.