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I'm not sure if I'm just turning into an old man prematurely or what, but "social" sites and apps usually turn too confusing for me to use around their second o
by spanhandler 6y ago
I'm not sure if I'm just turning into an old man prematurely or what, but "social" sites and apps usually turn too confusing for me to use around their second or third iteration.
Facebook c. 2010 was too confusing for me, so I bounced off (from descriptions of what it was like a couple years before that, I think I'd have enjoyed it then).
Twitter's been too confusing for me to understand for years, I can barely follow what's going on when reading it, let alone use it (I've tried within the last couple years, and never got the hang of it). Used to be easy for me to read & use but the interface and interaction options don't make sense to me anymore.
I didn't even figure out that Instagram was supposed to primarily be a social site/service, despite repeatedly being exposed to it, until some time after the Facebook acquisition.
- sjg007 6y agoYep I agree. I find FB the easiest of them all but I had to log off b/c of the politics. I'd rather be ignorant.
- anunnymouse 6y agoYou're are not any more ignorant for avoiding political content on Facebook, it is a bunch of strawman echo chamber trash.
- blisseyGo 6y agoI think out of all of them, Twitter is the most complicated. Their comment threads itself are super complex. Plus the character limit forcing people to post in multiple threads makes it worse. UI wise, Snapchat is the worst.
- bobthepanda 6y agoThe "genius" of Instagram is that it's social media as advertising where people are mostly advertising photos of themselves. This of course makes it very easy to actually insert advertising in as well, because the ads look less conspicuous given the identical layout to a normal photo post (as opposed to say, Facebook, where an ad looks very different from a text status)