Social media is no longer social

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menno-dot-ai•about 1 hour ago

I've been telling people this. I went through the exercise of unfollowing everyone on Instagram that wasn't a real person that I actively interacted with in the past year. Lo and behold, turns out none of the 100+ people that remained EVER posts anything, except for stories. Why do we have this entire 'social' platform if only 10% of the screen (the tiny 'stories' bar) is dedicated to actual social interactions?

-Refraction-•about 1 hour ago

Everyone I know can't make discussion with me for five minutes before pulling out their phones. We need to fix this.

blitzar•about 4 hours ago

> studying social media like it's 2010

Social media wasn't social in 2010 either.

ghighi7878•about 4 hours ago

It was mostly. You still had mostly posts from your social group. it changed in 2014

sikozu•about 3 hours ago

What exactly was this big shift in 2014?

IshKebab•about 2 hours ago

I dunno what he's referring to but the big changes for me for Facebook were:

1. They let non-uni students on there. Suddenly my crazy aunt was sending me a friend request and they had no option for "be polite but I don't want to have anything to do with her". That diluted the amount of stuff I wanted to see.

2. They allowed sharing posts. This just gradually turned it into shit Reddit.

ChrisArchitect•about 1 hour ago

Direct pre-print link: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nue7_v1

dotcoma•about 5 hours ago

Not that the ‘social’ part was ever very good in the first place, but they are right, it’s not social anymore.

Social media is no longer social

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