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> studying social media like it's 2010 Social media wasn't social in 2010 either.

• ghighi7878 6mo ago
  It was mostly. You still had mostly posts from your social group. it changed in 2014
  • sikozu 6mo ago
    What exactly was this big shift in 2014?
    • IshKebab 6mo ago
      I dunno what he's referring to but the big changes for me for Facebook were: 1. They let non-uni students on there. Suddenly my crazy aunt was sending me a friend request and they had no option for "be polite but I don't want to have anything to do with her". That diluted the amount of stuff I wanted to see. 2. They allowed sharing posts. This just gradually turned it into shit Reddit.
      • ndisn 6mo ago
        Pretty sure non-uni students were allowed on Facebook way before 2014
        • IshKebab 6mo ago
          Yeah I didn't mean those happened in 2014.
    • ghighi7878 6mo ago
      https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/facebook-audience-network-ads/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/facebook-audience-network-... It also purchased whatsapp
• arnvald 6mo ago
  For me it was: - most posts I saw on Facebook were from my friends - Instagram was full of photos from my friends - on Twitter I mostly saw tweets from people I knew in person or open source contributors I followed Then my Facebook feed started having more and more „suggestions” then pages and groups, more brands than people. Instagram started showing me influencers and over time moved from photos to videos to counter TikTok. Twitter also started showing algorithmic feeds with more and more „suggested” people rather than those I followed. I stopped replying, commenting, eventually posting, social media turned into consumption-heavy media