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My main question is: Where are people going? It seems like there is a slight dip in usage across all social media, but I'm trying to figure out where those hou

My main question is: Where are people going? It seems like there is a slight dip in usage across all social media, but I'm trying to figure out where those hours/days/weeks are being spent. Are people turning to more real-life activities, just broadcasting and communicating less, turning to other up and coming platforms, or relying more on private messaging?

m_ke 8y ago
Instagram
drglitch 8y ago
Perhaps they're turning to group chats and imessages? Any meaningful use of instagram, snap, or similar platform introduces ads into your "friend news stream", whereas simplicity of whatsapp or similar platform avoids them, while preserving fluidity of communication.
- Qwertie 8y ago
  IM is honestly the number 1 social media right now. Its real communication with people you actually care about and not a popularity contest or marketing and no algorithm trying to tell you what you should be looking at.
  - spacehome 8y ago
    I think email is #1. Personally, it's my favorite because I get to pick and choose who sees each post.
    - natrik 8y ago
      Why can't you pick and choose with IM?
      - spacehome 8y ago
        I guess you can. Email seems to be more popular, though. For any given person, there's a higher likelihood they have email than any particular IM client.
        laken 8y ago
        I agree that more people have an email address than a particular IM client, however, a lot of people outside of the tech bubble don't use email much anymore for personal communication. iMessage is the solidified IM platform I see most, as if you have an iPhone, you have iMessage.
        Qwertie 8y ago
        In Australia SMS is still widely used because of IM fragmentation. A proprietary IM platform will never take over and we will stay in the current mess until one of the open source standards become well used.
        Kurtz79 8y ago
        Not at a local level. In many countries in Europe, WhatsApp is just about ubiquitous, and used by the average guy way more often than email. The same (from what I understand) for WeChat in China. Yes, if you need to communicate outside of your local circle of family and friends, e-mail is still king (for business communication for example, no contest), but how often does the average guy does it?
        spacehome 8y ago
        I'm a little shocked at your experience. It doesn't match my experience. Literally everyone I know has an email address.
        Kurtz79 8y ago
        Yes, everybody has an e-mail address, I'm talking about day-to-day communication and how much each medium is used. My brother/sister/mom/friends might use the e-mail once or twice per day, while they would use IM on mobile dozens of times per day. When you see people on public tranport or on the street writing on their mobile, what do you think they are doing? Most of the time they are using some kind of IM, not writing an email.
    - marmshallow 8y ago
      Same with messaging, right? I have a personal vendetta against email.
AznHisoka 8y ago
Netflix, Reddit, Instagram, Spotify, Discord..
i_am_nomad 8y ago
Outside?
- Finnucane 8y ago
  Arts & crafts. They’re all ‘makers’ now.
  - pcerdam 8y ago
    I think that's very good, to be honest.
    - Finnucane 8y ago
      For myself, I just got a saxophone.
- King-Aaron 8y ago
  This is my thought too. Why do you have to assume that users are choosing a different platform as opposed to just not using their phone/computer?
jklein11 8y ago
I'm going to put my tinfoil hat on for a second and say maybe this is due to social media companies cracking down on fake accounts?
deleted 8y ago
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Chazprime 8y ago
In my experience, it seems people are starting to put more emphasis on real-life activities and less on social media apps. Personally, I deleted my Facebook account and switched to Instagram to keep track of friends with... that freed up a lot of mornings.
saudioger 8y ago
Internet forums haha just kidding
CM30 8y ago
I've seen a fair few people and communities move to Slack, Discord and other such chat systems. Perhaps the 'public' side of social media is getting to them, so they're moving more in moderated communities rather than free for alls.
VLM 8y ago
Its the era of the notification and the interruption, now that we've addicted a fraction of the population to endless human-powered interruption we "need" to change all our software to have computer driven interruption. Consider app-spam in android notifications, the completely worthless notifications in the Windows notification bar. The addicts will still get their hit, but much as bad money chases out good money, its too expensive and politically sensitive to have humans generate that attention / interruption rush, so have machines spam the hell out of us. Besides, TV is dying, nobody watches that stuff anymore, and all those "push media" people need work. Expect life in the 2020s to be filled with a lot more interruption, mostly machine generated. Some interesting predictions: going to run into problems with work/life balance because of merging too close and spam explosion, such that even cognitively successful people are going to be much less well informed at work in the future than now due to sheer spam volume. Another novelty is we're in the last decade of the voice telephone call, in the death of the voice phone call era there will be bot armies in the cloud calling you dozens of times per day until you disconnect your voice call service. My guess is federated social media will have to rise when legacy hyper-centralized social media becomes pure propaganda and advertising to the point of being unusable. Possibly the same social factors that led to TV regulation of commercials back when people used to watch TV, might be reimplemented for the internet in a peculiar fashion. It'll be a major social status symbol to be interrupted all the time, much like follower counts used to be a big deal, of course cool people will spend all their time holding their phone to their face, swiping away meaningless notifications.

m_ke 8y ago

Instagram

drglitch 8y ago

Perhaps they're turning to group chats and imessages? Any meaningful use of instagram, snap, or similar platform introduces ads into your "friend news stream", whereas simplicity of whatsapp or similar platform avoids them, while preserving fluidity of communication.

Qwertie 8y ago
IM is honestly the number 1 social media right now. Its real communication with people you actually care about and not a popularity contest or marketing and no algorithm trying to tell you what you should be looking at.
- spacehome 8y ago
  I think email is #1. Personally, it's my favorite because I get to pick and choose who sees each post.
  - natrik 8y ago
    Why can't you pick and choose with IM?
    - spacehome 8y ago
      I guess you can. Email seems to be more popular, though. For any given person, there's a higher likelihood they have email than any particular IM client.
      - laken 8y ago
        I agree that more people have an email address than a particular IM client, however, a lot of people outside of the tech bubble don't use email much anymore for personal communication. iMessage is the solidified IM platform I see most, as if you have an iPhone, you have iMessage.
        Qwertie 8y ago
        In Australia SMS is still widely used because of IM fragmentation. A proprietary IM platform will never take over and we will stay in the current mess until one of the open source standards become well used.
      - Kurtz79 8y ago
        Not at a local level. In many countries in Europe, WhatsApp is just about ubiquitous, and used by the average guy way more often than email. The same (from what I understand) for WeChat in China. Yes, if you need to communicate outside of your local circle of family and friends, e-mail is still king (for business communication for example, no contest), but how often does the average guy does it?
        spacehome 8y ago
        I'm a little shocked at your experience. It doesn't match my experience. Literally everyone I know has an email address.
        Kurtz79 8y ago
        Yes, everybody has an e-mail address, I'm talking about day-to-day communication and how much each medium is used. My brother/sister/mom/friends might use the e-mail once or twice per day, while they would use IM on mobile dozens of times per day. When you see people on public tranport or on the street writing on their mobile, what do you think they are doing? Most of the time they are using some kind of IM, not writing an email.
  - marmshallow 8y ago
    Same with messaging, right? I have a personal vendetta against email.

AznHisoka 8y ago

Netflix, Reddit, Instagram, Spotify, Discord..

i_am_nomad 8y ago

Outside?

Finnucane 8y ago
Arts & crafts. They’re all ‘makers’ now.
- pcerdam 8y ago
  I think that's very good, to be honest.
  - Finnucane 8y ago
    For myself, I just got a saxophone.
King-Aaron 8y ago
This is my thought too. Why do you have to assume that users are choosing a different platform as opposed to just not using their phone/computer?

jklein11 8y ago

I'm going to put my tinfoil hat on for a second and say maybe this is due to social media companies cracking down on fake accounts?

deleted 8y ago

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Chazprime 8y ago

In my experience, it seems people are starting to put more emphasis on real-life activities and less on social media apps. Personally, I deleted my Facebook account and switched to Instagram to keep track of friends with... that freed up a lot of mornings.

saudioger 8y ago

Internet forums haha just kidding

CM30 8y ago

I've seen a fair few people and communities move to Slack, Discord and other such chat systems. Perhaps the 'public' side of social media is getting to them, so they're moving more in moderated communities rather than free for alls.

VLM 8y ago

Its the era of the notification and the interruption, now that we've addicted a fraction of the population to endless human-powered interruption we "need" to change all our software to have computer driven interruption. Consider app-spam in android notifications, the completely worthless notifications in the Windows notification bar. The addicts will still get their hit, but much as bad money chases out good money, its too expensive and politically sensitive to have humans generate that attention / interruption rush, so have machines spam the hell out of us. Besides, TV is dying, nobody watches that stuff anymore, and all those "push media" people need work. Expect life in the 2020s to be filled with a lot more interruption, mostly machine generated. Some interesting predictions: going to run into problems with work/life balance because of merging too close and spam explosion, such that even cognitively successful people are going to be much less well informed at work in the future than now due to sheer spam volume. Another novelty is we're in the last decade of the voice telephone call, in the death of the voice phone call era there will be bot armies in the cloud calling you dozens of times per day until you disconnect your voice call service. My guess is federated social media will have to rise when legacy hyper-centralized social media becomes pure propaganda and advertising to the point of being unusable. Possibly the same social factors that led to TV regulation of commercials back when people used to watch TV, might be reimplemented for the internet in a peculiar fashion. It'll be a major social status symbol to be interrupted all the time, much like follower counts used to be a big deal, of course cool people will spend all their time holding their phone to their face, swiping away meaningless notifications.