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When social media came online in the 00s it was just a way to keep track of your friends. That's it. You made friends, you added them to your network. It's ins
by llm_trw 3y ago
When social media came online in the 00s it was just a way to keep track of your friends. That's it. You made friends, you added them to your network.
It's insane to me that we're still using social media to mean whatever the fuck we have now.
Today social media, including facebook, is all about a few broadcasting their messages to billions. Mastodon isn't much better.
What happened to the social graph? Everyone is on the feed getting shit shoved down their throats because the algorithm decided they should.
- skydhash 3y ago> When social media came online in the 00s it was just a way to keep track of your friends. That's it. You made friends, you added them to your network. Current closest to that is Whatsapp( and Telegram). Even though Meta just added channels, but at its core, you only get access to your contacts updates. There are also groups which makes it more like IRC without the flexibility.
- zarathustreal 3y agoWait, what? WhatsApp has “updates” like a news feed? I thought it was a group chat app?
- vundercind 3y agoFacebook keeps adding crap to WhatsApp, and my friend group keeps ignoring it. Direct and group messages. That’s all. Nobody even uses the status feature they added a long time ago. There are four main-menu icons on the bottom, not counting “settings”, and we don’t use three of them. If they ever try to push the other stuff at the expense of the text-messaging-replacement, I expect we’ll all migrate to something else.
- llm_trw 3y agoCurrently there is nothing close to what myspace and facebook were like pre-2010. Telegram and WhatsApp are ways to chat to people, not see what they have been doing, or indeed what you have been doing yourself.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoSocial media (d)evolved into soapbox bullhorn. But so did traditional media.