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Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Post by mulmen »

slg wrote: post #105
mock-possum wrote: post #83

Wait - > We looked into the top 30 most popular apps people most want to delete in the United States by delving into regional search volumes for “delete” and “deactivate” apps/accounts by each state. They’re not going off of actual app deletion or account deactivation data… they’re going off of how often people search for how to do it? Here’s the thing - if I want to ‘delete Facebook’ then I’ll do it - there’s no sea…

They are also counting absolute numbers instead of numbers relative to the size of the social network. That means the bigger ones will generally be higher. Instagram seems to be about 5 times the size of Snap but only has roughly 3 times the number of people seeking to leave the platform. That means relatively people are seeking to leave Snap more than Instagram. Honestly this isn't a very good article and seems to j…

> That means relatively people are seeking to leave Snap more than Instagram.

Can you even assume intent here? Maybe they are trying to delete the app for some other reason, like trying to save storage space or fix a bug.

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Post by hbn »

brycedriesenga wrote: post #81
ilikerashers wrote: post #68

I hate how I got rid of TikTok because of the addictive short form content and now I find myself somehow in Instagrams short form content. Now YouTube are also doing it. These companies are just selling attention crack disguised as "creativity".

I'm still baffled about how TikTok hooks people. I installed it to check out an AI filter and look for a certain person doing live videos I found on YouTube. I've browsed the main feed a few times now and it's honestly 90-95%+ garbage and altogether just super annoying.

Why would you expect it to immediately know what to show you? This isn't YouTube's front page in 2007 where everybody gets suggested the same popular videos. You need to give it some input data first. The types videos you stick around and watch will be shown more frequently, the types you scroll past without watching will be shown less. It'll seed you stuff that it shows to people who watch similar stuff to you, and narrow your taste down. Everyone's feed becomes pretty unique, and chances are if you have any interests or hobbies, there's creators out there making something for your tastes.

In my experience it does a pretty good job of figuring this out. Especially compared to YouTube which seems to mostly show me videos from channels I've been watching frequently, and not necessarily similar types of content.

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Post by autoexec »

tristor wrote: post #43

My wife convinced me to install Instagram so she could send me videos of stuff. My experience was that at first it was annoying, then I found out I could follow some cool hobbyist folks working on cars, old computer systems, electronics, and of course all the mechanical keyboard content, as well as travel (I'm an extensive world traveler and used to post travel content on Instagram over 5 years ago) and I got sucked…

> Ads, the ads are bad because they're well targeted and mostly for things which are unnecessary or scams/knockoffs. I found myself buying things I didn't need from dubious brands.

I make it a rule to never click on an ad no matter what. On the rare occasion I see any ad at all, if I do see something I think I want, I'll search for it later on my own. That let's me look at reviews, compare other similar items, and it means I'm buying from reputable sources only. Block every ad you can, never click or interact with any ad you can't block (or just haven't blocked yet).

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Post by vlunkr »

ncallaway wrote: post #160
mock-possum wrote: post #83

Wait - > We looked into the top 30 most popular apps people most want to delete in the United States by delving into regional search volumes for “delete” and “deactivate” apps/accounts by each state. They’re not going off of actual app deletion or account deactivation data… they’re going off of how often people search for how to do it? Here’s the thing - if I want to ‘delete Facebook’ then I’ll do it - there’s no sea…

> Here’s the thing - if I want to ‘delete Facebook’ then I’ll do it - there’s no searching involved, I go to my home screen, long-press the ‘f’ icon and then choose the ‘trash’ option. But you haven't deleted your Facebook account. You've removed the app from your phone. If your goal was to delete your Facebook account you've failed. Each company has a different way to actually achieve (or come as close as they allow…

It's been many years since I deleted my Facebook, but it was absolutely hidden like you describe. As far as I could tell there was no way to navigate directly to it from the site itself.

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Post by JRandomHacker42 »

notShabu wrote: post #17

Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous. Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection, not an actual thing in reality (similar to colors not existing in reality). Having access to a extra mirrors at first creates a sense of control. You know your mom and dad won't give you a "non-distorted" reflection so the reflection from stra…

> They say it's the 'me' generation. It's not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It's self-conscious. That's what it is. It's conscious of self. Social media - it's just the market's answer to a generation that demanded to perform, so the market said, here - perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time, for no reason. It's prison - it's horrific. It's performer and audience melded together. What do we want more than to lie in our bed at the end of the day and just watch our life as a satisfied audience member. I know very little about anything. But what I do know is that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it.

Bo Burnham, from Make Happy

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Post by vlunkr »

JAlexoid wrote: post #128
notShabu wrote: post #17

Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous. Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection, not an actual thing in reality (similar to colors not existing in reality). Having access to a extra mirrors at first creates a sense of control. You know your mom and dad won't give you a "non-distorted" reflection so the reflection from stra…

I'm sorry, but this sounds like a lot of pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo... with a lot of condescending undertones. Instagram is by far the least horrible of social media platforms. It doesn't drag you into comments wars or allows you to repost things easily.

> doesn't drag you into comments wars

It doesn't focus on comments as much as other platforms, but they are just as terrible in my experience.

> allow you to repost things easily

And yet a good chunk of the content is straight from TikTok right now. Or a screen capture of tumblr blog and includes a Tweet of a video from TikTok.

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Post by formerly_proven »

Zak wrote: post #165
jvm___ wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the ideas that the world will be perfect if you would just think thoughts like these... "manifest what you want from the world" and "think positive thoughts and everything will be ok" Is actually kind of true when you think about all the algorithms that run social media. If you only ever search for cats and scroll past anything political, the algorithms will learn what you like and feed you more cats. So, if you'…

Youtube occasionally, but regularly tries to show me culture war content even though I never watch it and usually tell it "don't recommend this".

From the algorithmic feed PoV it's a very high value cluster (average watchtime has to be very high, audience retention is probably quite excellent) so it's unsurprising that it'll try to get you hooked from time to time.

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Post by hbn »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #30

I guess I am too slow in that I opened a Facebook account for the first time ever in may 2012 and it was where everybody seemed to be at, only for a couple years later everybody started to open a parallel Instagram account - I never could understand why people would want to use another thing additional to a thing that could do the same? In those years you could notice Facebook became a wasteland, the Cambridge analyt…

Instagram was much simpler back then. It wasn't a general social media platform, it was just for posting square images with captions. No DMs, no videos, no stories (that wasn't even a thing back then really), no status updates, etc. And it was only accessible on smartphones.

And that was around the time Facebook's original audience had their parents joining Facebook, making it less of a safe/cool place to screw around with your friends. Instagram had less appeal to parents because of all those limitations, so young people migrated there. Eventually the parents got on Instagram too, and they moved to Snapchat, which has so far done a pretty good job at being indecipherable to older generations, and focuses on making everything private, only sending stuff to people directly or whitelisted groups of people who can see your stories. Not to mention, everything having an expiration date means people won't be able to scroll back and see cringey/embarrassing posts you made a few years ago.

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Post by throwaway049 »

barrysteve wrote: post #164
notShabu wrote: post #17

Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous. Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection, not an actual thing in reality (similar to colors not existing in reality). Having access to a extra mirrors at first creates a sense of control. You know your mom and dad won't give you a "non-distorted" reflection so the reflection from stra…

Very true. There was a young woman highlighted by a popular youtuber for her odd behaviour in a gym recently. She was filming herself exercizing for views and dollars. The rough moment was when everyday gym guys walked past her. She felt pressured enough by their presence to accuse them of being creeps and mocked them on her video feed while complaining at the guys in person. The guys were doing normal gym chores ign…

Or she's just acting that way for more views and dollars.

You're posting on hn about a YouTuber who filmed an Instagrammer... We're all doomed!

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