Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats

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Post by thunderbong » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 9:57 AM UTC

Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
businessinsider.com

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Post by dzonga » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

that's why tik-tok has grown. there's a sense of authenticity with it. no fake posturing.

disclaimer - i'm not on tik-tok. just based on videos I see shared and posted everyn now and then

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Post by azangru » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:26 AM UTC

> no one is posting on social media anymore

"Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded".

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Post by nwoli » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:29 AM UTC

Simultaneously twitter is breaking records in number of users (if Elon is to be believed)

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Post by bluetomcat » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:32 AM UTC

It's not social media anymore. In their feed, people are bombarded with ads, news, jokes as regular "content creation" and group posts where strangers with a narrow interest in, say, collectible figurines are posting pictures of their new purchase.

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Post by zer0tonin » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:33 AM UTC

nwoli wrote: post #4

Simultaneously twitter is breaking records in number of users (if Elon is to be believed)

I don't see how that's possible, I have been a Twitter users for years and last time I checked my feed was basically a ghost town. I don't even bother logging in because I know the people I liked talking to are now either on mastodon or left social medias entirely.

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Post by falcor84 » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:33 AM UTC

I wonder whether Google+ and its Circles would have seen better success if it was launched now.

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Post by quickthrower2 » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:33 AM UTC

nwoli wrote: post #4

Simultaneously twitter is breaking records in number of users (if Elon is to be believed)

Both can be true

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Post by politelemon » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:34 AM UTC

falcor84 wrote: post #7

I wonder whether Google+ and its Circles would have seen better success if it was launched now.

I think its reputation of killing products would still have been a factor in avoiding using it. Maybe not a factor for everyone but at least in some... uh, circles.

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Post by lolive » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 10:37 AM UTC

I have an addiction to Twitter, but I am the first to admit that top-quality tweets are one in a million in my timeline. The big advantage is that I follow so many different kind of people at once that there is a HUGE diversity of infos.

On the contrary, I follow very specific topics on Reddit. And as far as I am concerned, the quality of info is top-level, and the signal/noise ratio is VERY good.

Regarding Facebook, I mostly only follow [dedicated] groups now. And once again, the signal/noise ratio is much better.

Conclusion: apart from Twitter, social media are all back to being fancy Usenet clones :)