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Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by jug »

muser8 wrote: post #2

I often remark to family and friends that the human race wasn't ready for the capacity for instant communication with 'everyone everywhere all at once' but perhaps that was overly pessimistic and we are developing that muscle. Or is the novelty just wearing off and there are movements to other platforms that aren't represented in the article?

There is a Kurzgesagt that I can recommend about this! How our puny brains are ready for socializing and it’s been very important for us, but more on an isolated “tribe” level or at the very least without social networks, arguing that returning to special interest bulletin boards online will probably have us feel better.

https://youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0

Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by japanman185 »

tombert wrote: post #5

Even disregarding privacy concerns (which you shouldn't!), I stopped posting on social media largely because I'm too argumentative of a person for it. When arguing is limited to people I see in person, it's a somewhat time-boxed and constrained operation. I typically can only argue with one person for N minutes, and eventually both of us get tired of it and we move on with our lives, but there's always someone wrong…

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Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

javajosh wrote: post #17
whstl wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny. I was actually able to control myself in Facebook/Twitter (I had veeeery few discussions there, even peaceful ones were rare), but the problem was the increasing amount of arguing I was seeing , especially thanks to the algorithmic timeline. It was making me feel like shit even when I wasn't participating. Even when I stopped liking stuff it was visible that it was fucking with my mental health. Walking away f…

>increasing amount of arguing I was seeing* [on twitter] I recently created a new account, adding only programming and professional connections, and it's actually quite good! If you don't click on any of the "trending" stuff, it functions like a microblog should: it's a way for me to keep up with the projects and OSS personalities I want to, without the fuss. I did something similar with YouTube: I simply turned off…

Personally, I found switching to liferea (an RSS reader) to track the YT channels I cared about, and generally avoiding using recommendations was a path to satisfaction. I spend very little time scrolling through YT now. Most of the time, it's liferea that tells me a new video is out that I almost certainly want to see. However, the recommendation engine works quite well for me, and so when watching the video I did actually want to see, I will see the right-side suggestions list and every so often, there's something good/valuable there).

Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

bratwurst3000 wrote: post #24
javajosh wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>increasing amount of arguing I was seeing* [on twitter] I recently created a new account, adding only programming and professional connections, and it's actually quite good! If you don't click on any of the "trending" stuff, it functions like a microblog should: it's a way for me to keep up with the projects and OSS personalities I want to, without the fuss. I did something similar with YouTube: I simply turned off…

Thank you! I didn’t know that feature of YouTube. I love YouTube and you made it a better place. Because now I block the front page but then I miss the posts of channels I subscribed.

Use an RSS reader (I use liferea) to track the latter. It can be delayed by several hours, but that's the life we want, right?

Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by epolanski »

I feel like posting has become simply uncool in time for few major reasons:

- older gens (50+) getting on socials (cool kids club vanishes)

- raise of influencers and post quality (comparison anxiety)

- change to algos (fewer people will see it)

I can't but think that plain old vBulletin/PhpBB topic-based forums are still the pinnacle of internet discussions.

I don't like the fact, e.g. that interesting discussion on hackernews end up in a day and you don't have long threaded discussions.

Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by 0x0203 »

tombert wrote: post #27
kelnos wrote: post #22

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I don't think I'm quite as argumentative as you've described yourself, but I've fallen into some of the same traps in the past. I stopped using Facebook 5 or so years ago, and almost instantly felt better day-to-day. I hadn't realized how upset Facebook was making me. Sometimes it would just make me sad (as in, "it's so disappointing that people believe garbage like XYZ") and other times actively angry. Sure, I did o…

I agree with pretty much everything you said; I don't argue too much on HN but I do occasionally. My life improved substantially after I dropped Facebook, but the frustrating part now is that LinkedIn (more or less a necessity to find a job in 2023) has started to attract the same morons posting their conspiracy theories, and now I feel like somewhat of a hostage audience. At that point I'm in this kind of uncomforta…

Why do you feel LinkedIn is a necessity these days? What exactly does it provide that makes getting a job without it so difficult? I'm genuinely curious; I ditched LinkedIn a few years ago as I didn't see it providing any value for anything in my professional life and haven't suffered for it (as far as I know). And I've been involved in the hiring several people; linkedin has never been involved.

Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by efields »

Yep. As someone who just tried social media again this summer, mostly as a promotional tool, there’s been a downward usage trend. I think the events of October 7 didn’t help.

Too soon to call this good or bad for any singular reason, but what sucks as a result is how hard it is to build an audience now. The network effects are shattered. It’s a shame because I think the Instagram creation tools are kind of neat. If that service was just a digital community bulletin board where every post expired after 30 days or something… idk, could be cool.

Or a massive pendulum swing back to more analog, offline groups.

Re: People aren't posting on social media as much

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Post by tombert »

0x0203 wrote: post #38
tombert wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with pretty much everything you said; I don't argue too much on HN but I do occasionally. My life improved substantially after I dropped Facebook, but the frustrating part now is that LinkedIn (more or less a necessity to find a job in 2023) has started to attract the same morons posting their conspiracy theories, and now I feel like somewhat of a hostage audience. At that point I'm in this kind of uncomforta…

Why do you feel LinkedIn is a necessity these days? What exactly does it provide that makes getting a job without it so difficult? I'm genuinely curious; I ditched LinkedIn a few years ago as I didn't see it providing any value for anything in my professional life and haven't suffered for it (as far as I know). And I've been involved in the hiring several people; linkedin has never been involved.

A few job postings that I've seen actually require me to post a LinkedIn profile to hit the "submit" button. I suppose I could put some placeholder text in there like "N/A", but I feel like that would put me immediately on a waitlist.
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