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I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring
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Re: I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring
#12I just make new accounts to reset the recommendation engine and try to follow only my latest interests. Still it becomes boring too fast. Everyone is trying to sell you something. Very few genuine content creators out there.
Re: I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring
#13I quit Hacker News and other social sites They became boring
I'm not the only one. I didn't quit because I hated them or because it invaded my privacy (after all I was using it and gave away my data because I wanted to)
I quit because they are boring, content and people are boring. I'm 30 now and before I had a group of friends with similar interests: programming and technology. I was meeting new people with also similar interests so they were posting what was interesting to me and vice versa.
It was fun to be on Hacker News and such. But now when I lost touch with 99% of people it got boring. Some of them post about their new JS tool, some of their job and so on. I don't care, I can't relate to that. I don't even talk to 99% of the people, so it turned into stalking each other.
Also following funders is not interesting to me, they live in totally different dimension. I feel like my "online social life" is dead.
Re: I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has been a month and I feel no desire to go back
Try quitting HN. If you are able to stop the urge to reply my message, then you are on a good path.
Quitting HN is one thing. Getting HN to actually delete your account is something entirely different, or so I'm told.
Re: I quit Facebook, Instagram and other social sites They became boring
#15I agree, TikTok is the only platform that has maintained my interest to some degree because of the novelty of the content (built for discovery). But Twitter, FB, etc are the same old boring news cycles (even worse, sometimes reflexive topics like the popularization of The Current Thing meme, which is just a meta-news cycle but a news cycle all the same). I visit a few particular subreddits to keep up with stuff I car…
I feel I have to push back on that a bit. "Novelty of the content" is not the be-all and end-all for everyone. Fine if it is for you, but some people might actually like seeing stuff from people they know on Facebook and that's fine too. (The fact that Facebook drifted away from that is one of its biggest flaws IMO and it's good to see that they're drifting back.) Some people might like following particular subreddits, or particular people on Tumblr, because of a certain non-algorithmic taste in content, and that's fine too. Not everyone wants or should want the same thing from social media. Overgeneralizing from one's own experiences or preferences to the entire rest of the world is a plague. Let's not spread it. Celebrate diversity and choice instead.