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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I felt like and always did, about how social media is one gigantic misleading bloat of a sham. We've already perfected communication, you cannot get any better than instant messaging and video calling. The only improvements needing to be made is just better bitrate and whatever small technical steps needed.

But in general? Social Media is just overinflated. It overcomplicates communication. And all that social media is, is one gigantic data farm that we all contributed to, because social media was touted as a thing that was going to change the world, the next big thing. Well, it was right in the beginning but it took us too long to have seen the detrimental effects it has on the world now.

Then again, it's like, we've already had social media in it's simplicity. So okay, you didn't get together with your favorite niche group in instant messaging. However, there were things like MSN Groups back in the 2000s. There were Yahoo! Groups too. So it's like, what exactly did Facebook, Instagram, Twitter .etc really bring? Nothing that you couldn't do two decades ago!

The only net benefit of social media at all anymore is to reach everyone globally and that's about all of the only net positive I can think of social media's purpose anymore. Other than that, it's corporate's playground.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

I still post on 𝕏, as I have a large follow base on there.

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