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Fortunately we don't have to rely on your anecdata, people actually study this stuff: https://news.gallup.com/poll/467792/social-media-users-inclined-browse-po
by lemming 1y ago
Fortunately we don't have to rely on your anecdata, people actually study this stuff:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/467792/social-media-users-inclined-browse-post-content.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/467792/social-media-users-incli...
U.S. adults commonly engage with popular social media platforms but are more inclined to browse content on those websites and apps than to post their own content to them. The vast majority of those who say they use these platforms have accounts with them, but less than half who have accounts -- and even smaller proportions of all U.S. adults -- post their own content.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/the-behaviors-and-attitudes-of-u-s-adults-on-twitter https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/the-behavior...
The analysis also reveals another familiar pattern on social media: that a relatively small share of highly active users produce the vast majority of content.
- nradov 1y agoThat's junk science and doesn't refute the specific point I made. Facebook users are far more likely to post original content than X users. It might just be some blurry backlit vacation photos but it is original content.
- smackeyacky 1y agoThey post but it doesn’t get read, all their friends feeds are just swamped with crap like theirs is.