Social media is getting closer to fast fashion. Every app is doomed on creation to live a short life. I'm happy with this, since in reality, its ultimately a tool for marketing and social media is just the side effect. Superficial way of connecting to the masses? use the latest Social media. The real way of staying in touch with people? giving them a call or an email if not meet in person. Nothing beats the personal touch. Super
The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most
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#22Me: Deletes instagram.
Instagram: Your account will be deleted in 30 days.
Me: ...
Me: Login on day 29
Instagram: Welcome back.
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#23My vote is for LinkedIn. Who actually likes using that thing?
It can be useful for job seeking and maintaining contact with professional connections, but reading the feed full of self congratulatory and/or virtue signaling posts is a complete waste of time.
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#24I set a 15 minute daily limit on Instagram. I also have my phone setup to block all non-essential apps between 7:00AM and 6:00PM on the weekdays, and I am not usually hitting my 15 Insta-minutes on those days.
I could probably reduce that to 10 and still catch up on anything from friends and family. But the extra 5 minutes is just enough time to enjoy some interesting content from the hobby-influencers I follow, yet not enough time to get sucked into the click-bait stuff.
Before setting limits I was probably at 30-60 Insta-minutes per day. Now I spend that extra time commenting on HN, which I would like to think is a more productive endeavor.
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#25My vote is for LinkedIn. Who actually likes using that thing?
I use the desktop site for jobs; I wouldn't download the app if they paid me.
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#27Somehow Instagram is the only social media I can tolerate. Doesn't seem to have the hate and anger that I encounter constantly on Twitter and Reddit. Perhaps text format is not for me. I'm sure there is ugly stuff on Instagram but when it comes to images and video clips I naturally follow artists, musicians, and foodies rather than political or other incendiary content.
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#28I actually tried to delete Facebook at one point, but so much interaction is only on FB I had to come back to it.
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#29My vote is for LinkedIn. Who actually likes using that thing?
LinkedIn is a paradox. It's basically a free online resume to most people. A small subset actually post on it trying to build their brand. And then an even smaller subset don't understand that it's basically social media at work and spend their time posting political opinions and conspiracy theories that make them look bad.
I've never used LinkedIn for anything other than to respond to recruiters and look up people's backgrounds.
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#30I 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 analytica scandal surfaced and got so stressed just by opening the app - I deleted my account in 2018. But for my surprise, people around here seems to be quite happy with Facebook (which here in Latin America seems to refuse to die!), Instagram, twitter, Snapchat and now tik tok accounts - how do they handle all of that?