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

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

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Post by CamelCaseName »

tayo42 wrote: post #60
GenerWork wrote: post #17

I've noticed that a lot of my friends switched from text based status updates (Facebook) to image based status updates (Instagram stories). Personally, I got tired of going on Facebook because it was all rage baiting political stuff, and that was all from friends, not even ads.

Instagram stories seems to be dieing too, except for the professional and business accounts I follow

The bar is just so high, everywhere.

I want to fire off a quick quip and have a conversation.

Reddit is probably the only place where this works any more, but you have to be prompted by the right thread and early.

So people throw up their hands and go, "why bother?"

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

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Post by bamboozled »

insickness wrote: post #9

To keep people engaged, social media platforms have shifted from showing you content from people you know to prioritizing viral content. The algorithms know viral content offers an endless stream of entertainment that keeps people scrolling longer.

Yes because people no longer post they realised they need to show you their “explore” feed.

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

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Post by varispeed »

jafitc wrote: post #57
varispeed wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Part of me hopes that we got back to the late 1990s dedicated websites/forums. That seems to be the Discord model but let's see. Well, thanks for lobbying, that's got regulated away. One must be mad today to run a forum.

"thanks to lobbying". if you use "for" it sounds like you are adressing the OP and he did the lobbying that you don't like.

Yes, I meant "to". Thank you.

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

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Post by nradov »

CatMustard wrote: post #46
ericbarrett wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But which one - SMS/RCS? iMessage? WhatsApp? Signal? Telegram? Discord?

Funny, every time I've joined a new group for dancing or art classes or DnD or anything it's always 100% of the time a WhatsApp group, no questions asked. (This is in Ireland). Never occurred to me that Americans wouldn't have a common group chat app everyone uses. Do Americans not all use iMessage, since pretty much everybody has an iPhone there?

That's a weird perspective. Certainly not everyone has an iPhone. As for other messaging apps, I also see widespread use of GroupMe for certain domains like sports teams. Some clubs also run their own Slack channels.

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

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Post by 1659447091 »

alexpotato wrote: post #23

Back in 2005-ish era, I helped reboot a college club (I was the coach/advisor). We started out using forum software to co-ordinate what we were doing but eventually (2008-ish) switched to Facebook as the president of the club pointed out "Alex, everyone is already on Facebook and the notifications from us are in the middle of the notifications for when the next party is" etc. Fast forward to today and the club is reb…

Why not group emails?

There's a guy that runs multiple sports teams at a local recreation center, in multiple adult divisions (wide age/culture rage), and he has been using email to great effect for over a decade that I have known him. I get 2-3 weekly emails about teams that need a sub for a game and those spots continue to fill up quickly. He probably has the majority of regulars (in the hundreds) at that sports center on his various email list. It just works. They tried chat groups once and that was a disaster.

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Post by nradov »

Symbiote wrote: post #34
ericbarrett wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But which one - SMS/RCS? iMessage? WhatsApp? Signal? Telegram? Discord?

When I ran a student society we used an email mailing list. You can have two if necessary, one only for announcements and one for discussion.

This tends to run into problems with people not actually reading their email, especially when the messages are falsely classified as spam. That might not be a problem if all the members are on the same school mail server but it's problematic for general usage.

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

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Post by jandrewrogers »

CatMustard wrote: post #46
ericbarrett wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But which one - SMS/RCS? iMessage? WhatsApp? Signal? Telegram? Discord?

Funny, every time I've joined a new group for dancing or art classes or DnD or anything it's always 100% of the time a WhatsApp group, no questions asked. (This is in Ireland). Never occurred to me that Americans wouldn't have a common group chat app everyone uses. Do Americans not all use iMessage, since pretty much everybody has an iPhone there?

Americans primarily use iMessage/SMS/RCS. You only need one messaging app and everyone has it pre-installed on both iOS and Android.

WhatsApp does not solve any problems for the typical American user. Most Americans don't install WhatsApp unless they spend a lot of time overseas some place where it is required to do anything. Even international group chats seem to be more Discord-based in recent years.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

1659447091 wrote: post #65
alexpotato wrote: post #23

Back in 2005-ish era, I helped reboot a college club (I was the coach/advisor). We started out using forum software to co-ordinate what we were doing but eventually (2008-ish) switched to Facebook as the president of the club pointed out "Alex, everyone is already on Facebook and the notifications from us are in the middle of the notifications for when the next party is" etc. Fast forward to today and the club is reb…

Why not group emails? There's a guy that runs multiple sports teams at a local recreation center, in multiple adult divisions (wide age/culture rage), and he has been using email to great effect for over a decade that I have known him. I get 2-3 weekly emails about teams that need a sub for a game and those spots continue to fill up quickly. He probably has the majority of regulars (in the hundreds) at that sports ce…

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

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Post by jandrewrogers »

Symbiote wrote: post #34
ericbarrett wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But which one - SMS/RCS? iMessage? WhatsApp? Signal? Telegram? Discord?

When I ran a student society we used an email mailing list. You can have two if necessary, one only for announcements and one for discussion.

Many people don't read their email anymore. When I send an email I often have to send a text message to the person telling them I sent an email or they won't see it.
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