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Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by mulmen »

paganel wrote: post #359
ajross wrote: post #270

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What's hilarious is that this is still up three hours after posting with not even a reply. So much for censorship. You're totally allowed to post that here, even while conflating one charity with a continent-wide protest movement, one leader's out of context quote with the goals of that movement, and one enforcement action by Amazon Smile with an accusation of "fraud". For those interested in whether there's any trut…

Ignoring or de-facto shadow-banning is also a form of censorship.

I’ll keep saying it. Nobody has a right to an audience. Ignoring something isn’t censorship.

Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by t_mann »

woweoe wrote: post #314
t_mann wrote: post #165

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There's also a need to be filled to let your friends know which college you're going to, how awesome your last vacation was, what job you got,... LinkedIn seems to be filling the void left by Facebook. I don't know if many people who used social media other than dedicated apps to find dates.

Facebook fails with the segregation of social groups most humans have. In some countries a person does not make true friends at work, and friends are a personal casual thing. For some cultures a friend can be made in a few days, in other cultures it takes several months or years

Perhaps that's why LinkedIn seems to be doing better: it has some selection of connections built into its premise, plus the information shared there is the minimal set that you usually wouldn't mind too much sharing across most of your social groups (got a new job, hooray!).

Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by [deleted] »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #405
agileAlligator wrote: post #362

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The average person has about 150 people they care about. 100 friends is par for the course imo

Do you have a source for that? From a quick search: [0] indicates the average number of friends is roughly 9 [1] indicates the number is roughly 5 [2] indicates the number is roughly 16 -- [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/10891/americans-satisfied-numbe... [1] https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-a... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/friends-adults-amer...

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Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by agileAlligator »

test1235 wrote: post #400
holoduke wrote: post #394

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150? What about 5-10? I don't believe you can have 150 people you really care for.

Not really care for, but the number of relationships you can keep track of: "By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

That's what I meant to say. FB friends = friends + acquaintances, which should be around 150 for average people

Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by jasonladuke0311 »

allenu wrote: post #123
dont__panic wrote: post #17

> [TikTok]'s addiction-based advertising machine is probably close to the theoretical maximum of how many advertisements one can pour down somebody’s throat. Well put. It's interesting that we pivoted in my adult lifetime from: 1. Myspace's emphasis on sharing things on your own webpage, essentially a hosted blog 2. Facebook's evolution from "hosted blog" to "friend update aggregator" to "chat client" to "friend upda…

> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latency communication over the internet. I don't have as much hope for such a thing. To me, this trend is also a reflection of perhaps the societal devaluing of IRL social connections. In a world where encountering "new people" was novel, and typ…

> The newer connections are also way more transactional than they used to be. Just about everyone is selling something or trying to use their channels to promote themselves somehow.

Boy is this off-putting. Even amateur athletes and nobodies in hobbies I follow on Instagram are pimping anything and everything. I can't hate someone for trying to make a buck, especially as full-time athletes in non-lucrative sports, but it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by greyhair »

jasonladuke0311 wrote: post #456
allenu wrote: post #123

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> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latency communication over the internet. I don't have as much hope for such a thing. To me, this trend is also a reflection of perhaps the societal devaluing of IRL social connections. In a world where encountering "new people" was novel, and typ…

> The newer connections are also way more transactional than they used to be. Just about everyone is selling something or trying to use their channels to promote themselves somehow. Boy is this off-putting. Even amateur athletes and nobodies in hobbies I follow on Instagram are pimping anything and everything. I can't hate someone for trying to make a buck, especially as full-time athletes in non-lucrative sports, bu…

Instagram has spiraled down a hole with the introduction of reels. I was an early adopter of Instagram, and where it has headed, sucks.

I deleted my Facebook account pre-COVID, and I don't miss it at all. And my Instagram account is next. It brings me no joy anymore. It has not for several months now.

My only online 'social' activity now doesn't involve any IRL friends at all. About three or four really pleasant Reddit groups that actually help people learning new skills, or trading ideas they have tried. So little snark, it is refreshing as can be.

Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by procombo »

mulmen wrote: post #451
paganel wrote: post #359

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Ignoring or de-facto shadow-banning is also a form of censorship.

I’ll keep saying it. Nobody has a right to an audience. Ignoring something isn’t censorship.

Shouldn't I get to decide what I ignore?

Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by greyhair »

salmo wrote: post #273
allenu wrote: post #123

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> If we're lucky, that means a federated, open, mostly-ad-and-suggestion-free open source social media experience can fill the power vacuum for intimate, interpersonal, high-latency communication over the internet. I don't have as much hope for such a thing. To me, this trend is also a reflection of perhaps the societal devaluing of IRL social connections. In a world where encountering "new people" was novel, and typ…

This isn’t fundamentally different than urbanization. And this has been bemoaned as far back as we have history. I’m older. I used PCs without modems. I didn’t have access to the internet until I was 15, and I was ahead of the curve. So I didn’t grow up with social media. But I was a heavy user. Now this an a relatively anonymous Twitter account are all I have left. Every time one evolves past me being able to have c…

I lived very briefly in Manhattan near Lincoln Center. There was a bar about three blocks from the apartment that was very pleasant, and it was 90% always the same people from the neighborhood. We all knew each other. It was weird being in this city of about six million (at that time) and still have this very small conclave (forty people?) that frequented this one bar.

Re: Is this the end of social networking?

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Post by robjan »

matlin wrote: post #448
robjan wrote: post #250

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Tried to download the app but it seems to be geo-restricted

Which country are you coming from? We initially restricted to the US because we haven't done any translations / internationalization yet.

I'm from Hong Kong. English is pretty widely used here.
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