Zeni Perez’s Reviews > The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource > Status Update
Zeni Perez
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Social attention is being the object of someone’s attention or someone paying attention to you. Without it, we go insane, we can’t do solitude. The possibility of reciprocating it is the basis of all social relationships but not enough to sustain all of them.
— May 19, 2026 07:25PM
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Zeni Perez
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Maybe boredom is a modern invention. Before technology advances, we were always social because it meant survival. Newborns are dependent on attention to live. Meditation is less common as we need a constant distraction it’s harder to choose to sit still with our thoughts.
— May 18, 2026 08:14PM
Zeni Perez
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We already know social media apps sell our data to ads to try to sell to us personally. What else is new
— May 16, 2026 05:30PM
Zeni Perez
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Involuntary attention = attention to threats/danger, voluntary attention = spotlight on someone/something, social attention = being the object of someone’s attention is how humans bond
— May 16, 2026 04:28PM
