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I don't generally have a good sense of where gen pop is heading, but recently the few social media type sites I still use are losing what little appeal they had

I don't generally have a good sense of where gen pop is heading, but recently the few social media type sites I still use are losing what little appeal they had. It's all just so boring and recycled.

wodenokoto 3y ago
I don’t think social media broadly is going away, but they are changing. Facebook kinda killed its own activity by pushing growth of their social graph. Over time it stopped being a place to connect with friends and just became… I don’t know. But it discourages user activity because family, friends, old classmates, guys you bumped into on a night out, ex’es all can see your activity. It’s not fun checking-in somewhere, posting funny pictures from last nights party or whatever because it is practically public. And my impression is young kids don’t like it either. You do your highlights reel on Instagram, but other than that, everything happens in private chat groups. Every meetup group I go to, every Facebook group I visit wants us to connect in a private chat group and have notifications every time someone says something. For this old fart, it’s exhausting to keep up with.
- arlcode 3y ago
  I feel like there is only so much "interesting" stuff going on in the lives of the people I care about. The need for SM companies to get more of my time requires them to shower me with increasingly irrelevant content to keep my engagement going up. At some point there is literally no additional time people can spend in SM (you can't get a time credit card). So more ads it is until the plattform is barely usable for someone not interested in the passively consumed avalanche of polished medicare. That's why chat groups are increasingly popular I think. You get to have a two way conservation with people who respond and care about you (at least a little bit). Meeting them in real live (or one on one online) also enforces the "authenticity" of the interaction. Therefore I expect Facebook to introduce lots of ads to WA very very soon.

I don't generally have a good sense of where gen pop is heading, but recently the few social media type sites I still use are losing what little appeal they had. It's all just so boring and recycled.

wodenokoto 3y ago

I don’t think social media broadly is going away, but they are changing. Facebook kinda killed its own activity by pushing growth of their social graph. Over time it stopped being a place to connect with friends and just became… I don’t know. But it discourages user activity because family, friends, old classmates, guys you bumped into on a night out, ex’es all can see your activity. It’s not fun checking-in somewhere, posting funny pictures from last nights party or whatever because it is practically public. And my impression is young kids don’t like it either. You do your highlights reel on Instagram, but other than that, everything happens in private chat groups. Every meetup group I go to, every Facebook group I visit wants us to connect in a private chat group and have notifications every time someone says something. For this old fart, it’s exhausting to keep up with.

arlcode 3y ago
I feel like there is only so much "interesting" stuff going on in the lives of the people I care about. The need for SM companies to get more of my time requires them to shower me with increasingly irrelevant content to keep my engagement going up. At some point there is literally no additional time people can spend in SM (you can't get a time credit card). So more ads it is until the plattform is barely usable for someone not interested in the passively consumed avalanche of polished medicare. That's why chat groups are increasingly popular I think. You get to have a two way conservation with people who respond and care about you (at least a little bit). Meeting them in real live (or one on one online) also enforces the "authenticity" of the interaction. Therefore I expect Facebook to introduce lots of ads to WA very very soon.