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blitzar•about 2 hours ago

> studying social media like it's 2010

Social media wasn't social in 2010 either.

ghighi7878•about 2 hours ago

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

sikozu•about 1 hour ago

What exactly was this big shift in 2014?

IshKebab•6 minutes 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.

dotcoma•about 3 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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