Hear it Again: Are we approaching a post-social media future?

Since tech mogul Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion last October, one of social media's biggest giants has gone through an eye-popping overhaul.

This week, Musk announced the next domino to fall: Twitter has a new name -- the letter "X."

This means the end of a brand identity that put "tweeting" in the dictionary, but it’s another departure from the social media world that defined the rise of the Internet.

Google is now Alphabet, Facebook is Meta, and Twitter is X.

These companies are still mega-corporations that hold a lot of our collective attention online. But these changes have also opened the door for newer platforms -- like TikTok.

In the meantime, lots of people are working at this very moment to create the next big social media platform. But there’s at least one person who believes that the age of social media as we know it is over.

Last December, Soundside talked with Ian Bogost, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, about his story "The Age of Social Media is Ending."

Listen to the full segment by clicking "play" on the audio above.

Read and listen to the original story here.