Featured Session: Primal Instincts: Making Social "Social" Again

Mar 8, 2025

10:00am – 11:00am CT

What role does / should social media play in our actual social lives? We are wired to need connection, but the more we connect with tech, the less we actually connect with each other. Social media was never enough.

Baratunde Thurston sits down with Mozi founders Molly DeWolf Swenson and Ev Williams to explore the intersection of IRL and the internet, and to discuss the past, present and future of "social.”

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

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Baratunde Thurston

Multiverses Media / Life With Machines

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