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The underlying assumption is that social platforms are the ideal way to communicate. Is that really true? I keep in touch with most people by texting. It does
by coffeefirst 4y ago
The underlying assumption is that social platforms are the ideal way to communicate.
Is that really true?
I keep in touch with most people by texting. It does the job. Ditching almost every "social" app had no noticeable affect on my social life. I think I missed one housewarming party in 2019 because the host didn't realize I'd left Facebook.
None of us really picked the "post all your life updates to one feed with everyone you know and then scroll it"—the platforms designed that and we just sort of ran with it.
I'm not suggesting we should go strictly back to keeping in touch by phone calls and handwriting long letters (for starters, I forget how stamps work), but I'd rather have a slightly more personal model than replace one big feed with another.
- em-bee 4y agoI keep in touch with most people by texting SMS is very bad at groups, and the most effective way to stay in touch with friends for me is groups where we talk about shared interests. not everyone needs to engage but everyone can read and is thus kept in the loop. there is no problem for the more silent types to engage only once in a while whereas in one on one they would almost never stay in touch. i use one on one almost exclusively for transactional messages, where we have to exchange information of some form, but rarely for just personally staying in touch. so at least for me it's not social networks that are the ideal, but groups.
- zimpenfish 4y ago> I keep in touch with most people by texting. It does the job. That requires giving your phone number to someone. I can imagine there's many situations where you'd be happy to have a casual social relationship with someone but not want them to have your phone number (and that's not even considering the potential for stalking, etc.)