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Post by astrange »

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #318
spacelamb wrote: post #135

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Another anecdote: an undergraduate at a top university I knew, with publications, leadership positions, and strong research experience at the time, was also into reality television, and specifically avoided dramas/prestige television (e.g. Mad Men, Breaking Bad). In addition to not requiring thinking, I remember he also mentioned that it's harder to get "hooked" and end up binge-watching episodes. The perspective is…

mad men, breaking bad are trash as far as I am concerned.

I only watch the Netflix fireplace channel.

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Post by astrange »

rtpg wrote: post #15
rib3ye wrote: post #12

If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).

Hell, im a pretty early adopter of instagram along with loads of friends and like 95% of content has become stories. Turns out Snapchat was what most of us wanted but without a purposefully obtuse interface

Snapchat's main problem was the default screen was full of tabloid magazines from a grocery store checkout aisle.

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Post by astrange »

spacelamb wrote: post #236
Apocryphon wrote: post #191

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VSCO also doesn't have likes, wonder how that network's been faring.

On Instagram, I've seen VSCO links as the "link in bio" (the url in the user's profile) for a few acquaintances I follow. Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon [0] at play; I believed I never heard of VSCO before, but just saw a link in bio, and remembered a couple other appearances. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

If you were younger, you would've heard of VSCO users because they want to save the turtles (sksksksk).

That or you'd remember it as the other photo filter app in 2011.

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Post by nonima »

epolanski wrote: post #65
marcodiego wrote: post #32

I don't understand Instagram language. My GF uses it. It is full of digital influencers, people who make money because they are digital influencers. Young people with sometimes funny but generally pointless and most often ridiculous dancing moves to an equally ridiculous repetitive song. People buying expensive things, doing idiot things talking about uninteresting details of the uninteresting lives of equally uninte…

I met one of the most brilliant people in my life. Smart, passionate about art, culture, politics. Brilliant student, top of her class from elementary through college. Fluent (as in certified) C2 in English and German. Terrific career as a public servant in foreign politics already in her late 20s. She would never, ever, miss a single episode of a “reality” about dating in tv, a show famous in Italy as “trash tv”. It…

I use Discord for the same purpose. Just mindlessly chatting with strangers can be very relaxing and I find it to be way more addictive than facebook and similar platforms.

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Post by jonathantf2 »

klondike_ wrote: post #16
rib3ye wrote: post #12

If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).

Most people under the age of 30 are using Snapchat

True here - the only people I use anything else with is work colleagues and parents. Everyone else uses Snap.

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Post by alphabetter »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #160
deergomoo wrote: post #92

I used to have a really nice, tailored experience on Instagram. All I saw was genuinely good photography and art that I was interested in. Since Reels launched, my feed and the search screen is basically just softcore porn. Not sure what I’ve done to get the algorithm all hot and heavy—perhaps just being an 18-35 male is enough—but it’s rather embarrassing to the point where I don’t always feel comfortable opening th…

There’s a “sensitive content control” option in account settings. Set to “limit even more” and this type of content will actually stop showing. My search screen is just airplanes and Turkish construction videos now.

Thanks for the tip which I will try. I agree with the OP and parent, IG used to be an enjoyable experience if you were careful about who you follow, but it seems that it's now in the process of being destroyed by bad ideas borrowed from FB.

My explore page used to be hit-and-miss, but generally somewhat relevent. Over the last few days it has been filled with revolting photos of fake-tanned idiots. No amount of attempting to swat then with "Not Interested" seems to work.

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Post by astrange »

physicles wrote: post #232
jaequery wrote: post #129

In what seems like a blink of an eye, Facebook, is now considered the old people platform, according to kids these days. It took me a while to grasp it but it looks like FB has a huge problem in there hands and it's interesting to see how they tackle their image.

Facebook became the old people platform when my parents and relatives joined in ~2012. That's about the time I stopped using it.

That was actually nice for a while - I mean, you do want to keep up with them.

But in the last few years, every interaction with any of them on my FB account has been either conspiracy theories or them trying to send me messages in the replies of random other peoples' posts. It seems that being on it too much was bad for them.

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Post by bovermyer »

eloisius wrote: post #282
ddalex wrote: post #279

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The problem is that Whatsapp is a very non-US-oriented app - its is very popular in EU and Asia/Africa/Latin America, but none of my US friends use it other than to reach us outside of the US. Since it's not US-focused, the US execs (and boards, investors) tend to dismiss it. This explains why Whatsapp was left, relatively, untouched by FB in terms of user experience, after the acquisition - it's not shiny by any mea…

Which countries in Asia still count it as the most popular messaging app? China is on WeeChat, Korea has KakaoTalk and LINE is everywhere else. It is pretty amazing that Meta had three messaging apps and none of them are close to something like LINE in terms of ubiquity or utility.

I've never heard of LINE. What makes it different?

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Post by motoxpro »

SrslyJosh wrote: post #141
motoxpro wrote: post #125

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I'm glad we didn't declare the phone "done" at the Razor flip phone or that we didn't declare personal websites "done" with Yahoo Geocities. Progress has to happen. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong, but you have to try.

Not a great example. Phones became general purpose(-ish) computing devices without losing the ability to function as a phone. Facebook trying to turn Instagram into Tiktok ruins the ability to use Instagram as Instagram. It's more like Mr. Coffee saw that smoothies took off in popularity and decided to start making coffee machines that are also blenders, but now suck as coffee machines.

Haha I hear you. I think your point is exactly what I am getting at. Instagram wants to be more than "just" Instagram. My point is that sometimes you get that shift right, i.e. iPhone being more than "just" a phone, and sometimes you get it wrong.

I like living in a world where people have ambition. I won't ever fault Mr. Coffee for trying to become Mr. Beverage, best case they succeed and give me an amazing experience, worst case it allows for a ton of new players to satisfy the people who "just" want a Mr. Coffee.

I guess some people see this as greed. I just think we should all be constantly be striving to be better, including companies. Again, sometimes you get it right like Instagram allowing video, which also allowed for pure photsharing apps, and sometimes you get it wrong.

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