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Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

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Post by adjejmxbdjdn »

codedokode wrote: post #121
adjejmxbdjdn wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The terminology explains what happened. The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications. Since then, it’s become social Media. It’s now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers. The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it’s no longer about building networks…

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Yeah, that’s absolutely true. And thats exactly my point.

Social media is about “generating content”. Social networks were about connecting with people, not about consuming the content they generated.

Heck, the original version of Facebook didn’t even have content. The only interaction you could have with someone else was giving them a “poke”.

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Post by mbirth »

watwut wrote: post #124
rickcarlino wrote: post #89

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. You won’t see your friends stuff on any of them because it’s designed to work that way. Group chats are the only way to have a meaningful conversation if you a casual non-technical Internet dweller.

Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.

Twitter has it, too.

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Post by asdff »

codedokode wrote: post #121
adjejmxbdjdn wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The terminology explains what happened. The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications. Since then, it’s become social Media. It’s now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers. The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it’s no longer about building networks…

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More so that they are more prolific.

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Post by asdff »

cvwright wrote: post #127
rimeice wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2015 for me too. I wonder if there was some early day over juicing of the attention mechanism that put people off in that year, before they tuned it to reduce churn…

It was a big year for the culture war. People who had previously been cordial suddenly needed to fight each other over politics and other controversies of the day. The rest of us watched this happen, then slowly backed away.

It wasn’t even that for me. No one was posting anything political right or left back then. Just one day the newsfeed went from chronological posts of friends to littered with the bs you see today. Why even post when no one is going to see it. And then of course the natural march of life where people have less time to bother with that and no longer care if Stacy from English class liked the homecoming photos or not.

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Post by asdff »

yard2010 wrote: post #33
reactordev wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it used to be a shuffled timeline of the posts and likes your connections/friends have made but I guess when half your platform are bots, you don’t want to store that metadata anymore.

Remember the little dot in the end of the feed when you saw all your friends posts?

The days of scrolling 10-15 mins and done with social media for the day because you caught up.

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Post by rationalist »

watwut wrote: post #124
rickcarlino wrote: post #89

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. You won’t see your friends stuff on any of them because it’s designed to work that way. Group chats are the only way to have a meaningful conversation if you a casual non-technical Internet dweller.

Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.

Facebook has it too, or at least they did as of last year when I last used Facebook.

On the desktop version of the website, click on the "Friends" "Feed" (and there might have been a sort by date as well you had to then click on).

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Post by asdff »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #27
beej71 wrote: post #19

We're all in small groups on discord or in signal now. FB feed is just not the best medium for keeping up with friends.

Idea of keeping up with friends while being public to the whole world does not resonate with me. Internet was a different place indeed.

No one really had a public account though. Last thing you wanted was parents seeing you holding a solo cup in pictures.

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Post by asdff »

Simulacra wrote: post #5

It seems like so much of social media is just individuals shouting into the void.

It would be better if it was that. It is like for any given topic there is a bullet point of a couple takes you will find anywhere about that topic. Just parroting bots I guess since that probably snowballs engagement from other bots.

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Post by marssaxman »

codedokode wrote: post #121
adjejmxbdjdn wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The terminology explains what happened. The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Network. At the time we saw the likes of Facebook as networks intended to build 1-1 communications. Since then, it’s become social Media. It’s now about centralized structures broadcasting messages to subscribers and followers. The only difference from the past is who the broadcasters can be, but it’s no longer about building networks…

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The blogosphere was all about random people writing whatever they felt like: blogging died after the professionals took over and tried to make money at it.
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