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Honestly don't really care. Use something for as long as it's free and when they start monetising it move on to next free thing. And I'm not the only one- What

Honestly don't really care. Use something for as long as it's free and when they start monetising it move on to next free thing. And I'm not the only one- WhatsApp asking for money was scrapped within weeks after they noticed rising Telegram installations.

Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Honestly don't really care. Use something for as long as it's free and when they start monetizing it move on to next free thing. As a person who grew up on the internet, went from AIM to usenet/forums and stopped this entirely in my late teens/early 20s, when do you give this up? Despite being a millennial, at the very core ages mind you, I missed social media entirely because of how predictable this all was (the only thing they could monetize was your data, if you grew up in the early internet/chaning why would anyone willingly give this up?) so my question is: why bother? Platform hopping is a thing for people with more time on their hands than anything else, migrating platforms seems to me like something that is something that would fall out of favour after your late 20s, when you're more likely to bother pretending to be something you're not on the internet which just leaves having endless rants with bots for engagement in your 30+ for fake internet points, which is incredibly sad... so what's the point? Personally speaking, I just keep a close circle of friends who I speak with via Signal or Telegram if we cannot meet in person (most live on other continents) or can't do PgP encrypted email. I have held highly social positions most of my career in and outside of tech, and I just cannot grasp why anyone would want to do use their free time on these platforms to interact with people; let alone be willingly be used as a pawn for big data based organizations, including nation states and their respective intelligence agencies.
- WeylandYutani 3y ago
  Social media is the equivalent of playing games on your phone or binging Netflix. Most people aren't actually doing anything meaningful in this world and their time is not at a premium.

Melting_Harps 3y ago

> Honestly don't really care. Use something for as long as it's free and when they start monetizing it move on to next free thing. As a person who grew up on the internet, went from AIM to usenet/forums and stopped this entirely in my late teens/early 20s, when do you give this up? Despite being a millennial, at the very core ages mind you, I missed social media entirely because of how predictable this all was (the only thing they could monetize was your data, if you grew up in the early internet/chaning why would anyone willingly give this up?) so my question is: why bother? Platform hopping is a thing for people with more time on their hands than anything else, migrating platforms seems to me like something that is something that would fall out of favour after your late 20s, when you're more likely to bother pretending to be something you're not on the internet which just leaves having endless rants with bots for engagement in your 30+ for fake internet points, which is incredibly sad... so what's the point? Personally speaking, I just keep a close circle of friends who I speak with via Signal or Telegram if we cannot meet in person (most live on other continents) or can't do PgP encrypted email. I have held highly social positions most of my career in and outside of tech, and I just cannot grasp why anyone would want to do use their free time on these platforms to interact with people; let alone be willingly be used as a pawn for big data based organizations, including nation states and their respective intelligence agencies.

WeylandYutani 3y ago
Social media is the equivalent of playing games on your phone or binging Netflix. Most people aren't actually doing anything meaningful in this world and their time is not at a premium.