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In what sense?
by cowpig 1y ago
In what sense?
- rob_c 1y ago[flagged]
- altcognito 1y agoSocial media is bad for you. Though I'm not sure that social media enjoyed a "social media is good for you" phase. There are certainly studies I'm sure that are out there, but the general consensus seems to be negative.
- marc_io 1y agoOh, at least here in Brazil, people still find it strange if you say you don't have an Instagram account. There's this idea of being a bit weird for not following this trend.
- doodlesdev 1y agoBrazil is an exception, though! Did you know we are the third country in the world with the largest number of Instagram users? [0] Social media is very cultural here, so I'm not sure that we are representative of a larger trend in social media acceptance worldwide. [0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/578364/countries-with-most-instagram-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/578364/countries-with-mo...
- joquarky 1y agoNot surprised given the high cultural pressure for vanity there.
- WesolyKubeczek 1y agoThey did, 2006 to 2008-2010, when LinkedIn was considered hot and useful.
- ethbr1 1y agoThe edu-only era of Facebook was good, as well as the preceding livejournal era.
- immibis 1y agoThe shift from social networks to social media was subtle, and insidious. Social networks, systems where you talk to your friends, are okay (probably). Social media, where you consume content selected by an algorithm, is not.
- ethbr1 1y agoThat's a great way of framing it! And was basically driven by social network companies saturating organic friend content volume (and viewer eyeball time). So they turned into social media companies driven by infinite synthetic (in the no-connection sense) content.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoScientists aren't all health practitioners.
- DonHopkins 1y agoIn the same sense that "More scientists hang out with Neo Nazis and White Supremacists than with any other political party."