Social media is unrecognizable from the era of status updates, “it’s complicated” relationships and “tag yourself” memes. In 2023, The New York Times reported that the future of social media was “a lot less social.” “My sense is, we’re in the infancy of generative AI content,” Carmen Vicente, a social media analyst, told Straight Arrow. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the federal courthouse in Los Angeles after defending the company in a landmark social media addiction trial last February. (Photo by Jon Putman/Anadolu via Getty Images)Vicente thinks the addictive nature of social media is not going away.