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I completely agree, and it's the very reason social media holds no interest for me anymore. I think people have forgotten what it used to be like on Myspace and
by Pigo 9y ago
I completely agree, and it's the very reason social media holds no interest for me anymore. I think people have forgotten what it used to be like on Myspace and the early days of Facebook. Social media was about self expression and finding out where the party is, now it's a finely tuned marketing platform for grandmothers.
- captainmuon 9y ago> Social media was about self expression and finding out where the party is Exactly! My next project is going to be something like that. Based on the fediverse/Mastodon, but firstly about self-expression, connecting with real friends, meeting people. You curate your own home page, share what you want to share, you are invited to interact with strangers. No social media bs. Trying to capture the feeling of local / university social networks pre facebook, or the feeling of myspace.
- megamindbrian 9y agoI like it.
- Pigo 9y agoThe kids seem to be more into picture and messaging hangouts, but those things are lost into the ether (you hope anyways). Myspace jumped the shark customization wise, but there was a unique mix of the site helping you to find people and hanging out in real life, not being the actual hangout itself. Meetup was a good idea, but it doesn't seem to drive engagement. I don't know what the answer is, but I'd love to help out on a project that could be fun.
- michaelt 9y agoYou sure that isn't just you getting old? That's how it is for me.
- pmlnr 9y agoNo, it's not about getting old. In those days your social media site - or your blog - was heavily themed, altered,tailored to one's own ideas, sometimes to crazily annoyibg levels, sometimes to surprisingly clean minimalism. Today you have at maximum 2 images to make something 'unique', which doesn't even remotely scratches what it used to be during the early myspace era.