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We're two of those deserters here. It seemed too much like tv, in reverse. Everybody transmits and nobody watches.
by noonespecial 15y ago
We're two of those deserters here. It seemed too much like tv, in reverse. Everybody transmits and nobody watches.
- jcitme 15y agoThis is a problem inherent in any form of social media. Unfortunately, it's not easily fixed. You need to find a way to strike a balance between rewarding content creation and punishing spam, and the line in thin.
- windsurfer 15y agoReddit seems to do a great job.
- sin7 15y agoDon't kid yourself. Reddit has gotten to the point where reposts continue to make the front page because even if a lot of people have seen it, not all have. And I have noticed that the same comments will garner karma. The problem with websites like Reddit is that they suffer from the so called black swans. A good post can garner karma in the thousands, but a bad one will only have a negative one or two. So, reposting is a great strategy especially when new content is so hard to come by.
- Locke1689 15y agoThe real problem with Reddit is that the community sucks.
- ChrisArchitect 15y agopeople bring this stuff on themselves by treating fb as a massive 'who I know or am related to' index instead of following who they are interested in. I suppose fb brought some of this on themselves when they went down the twitter-emulation path a few years ago.
- ern 15y agoIt's interesting that you mention the "who am I related to" aspect, because Geni.com is exactly that. After altercations with unhinged second cousins-once-removed and unpleasant uncles, I set privacy to maximum and abandoned Geni (Geni's habit of spamming people who you added also led to a few unpleasant encounters at family reunions). The family tree idea was good, but the social aspect turned out to be unpleasant. Some of the same relatives are friends on Facebook, and it is much more pleasant experience, because they are nominal "friends", but are in a high privacy group, so we don't have much opportunity to interact.
- pagekalisedown 15y agoMy Facebook account is alright, but my Twitter and Linkedin are overrun by spammers.
- arethuza 15y agoI seem to be plagued by recruiters on LinkedIn - effectively the same thing as spam.
- dimitar 15y agoCan you limit who can contact you? Or do the 'pro'-versions undo this privacy setting for those who pay?
- jonknee 15y agoCan't you just not follow the spammers on twitter and be fine?
- EwanToo 15y agoNot really, when they message you whenever you mention a keyword they're tracking on (e.g. ipad), then all you can do is manually block them. It's a fairly painful process, and considering how much visibility Twitter has of each twitter client, their automatic anti-spam process should actually be much more effective than it currently is.
- jcromartie 15y agoSame here. My wife and I called it quits because it was just a big stressor and added nothing of value.
- imjustatechguy 15y agoI don't understand why it would stress you out. Can you explain?
- Groxx 15y agoMy wife has the same issue with it. She gets too bound up in the day-to-day, and feels too obligated to keep up to date, which the site makes nearly impossible to do efficiently. Then there's the typical drama on any social network, the annoyances with closed systems (we're happy with email and caldav, thanks, anything can use them!), and the endless, endless spam on the news feed. I always hid the feed with my user CSS file, and stayed on top of it, but she'd get roped back in when it occasionally broke. Being social is addictive, and she's more social than I am.
- imjustatechguy 15y agoI think my social circle is less active and less dramatic than yours. I guess that means that I am boring and my friends are also relatively boring. I guess different social circles are different and it probably varies by age group as well. I find your comments interesting because it is so completely different than my social world. I should also add that I don't find it addictive at all.
- Groxx 15y agoThis is throughout college, so add annoyance about normal college stupidity and a dash of escapism. Though I'm not sure what your age is, so it could be you're in that situation. I don't find it particularly addicting either, but to each their own. I'd be willing to bet there are at least as many FB addicts as WOW addicts, though.
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- podperson 15y ago> It seemed too much like tv, in reverse. Everybody transmits and nobody watches. Wait, isn't that TV in forward?