All social networks have value, if 1.) they enable forms of communication you find valuable, and 2.) you can find the people that broadcast relevant information

All social networks have value, if 1.) they enable forms of communication you find valuable, and 2.) you can find the people that broadcast relevant information. Personally I find niche social sites to be far more valuable than general sites. HN is social news for technical audiences. Reddit is social news curation across different demographics. GH is social software development. Facebook is Linkdin for my personal life. Tumblr is lazy blogging. Very noisy. Snapchat is faster picture texting. For many people this really is just cereal-bowl-boring. Instagram is photography made easy. I'd probably use this if I had more friends into real photography, but as-is it's just more cereal bowl pics. There's always noise but niche networks encourages higher quality because people care about the niche. Social noise is much less acceptable there. General sites will always just be "random shit no one wants to hear about in person".