> Social media is shouting at the void at best
At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.
At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.
It's insane to me that we're still using social media to mean whatever the fuck we have now.
Today social media, including facebook, is all about a few broadcasting their messages to billions. Mastodon isn't much better.
What happened to the social graph? Everyone is on the feed getting shit shoved down their throats because the algorithm decided they should.
Current closest to that is Whatsapp( and Telegram). Even though Meta just added channels, but at its core, you only get access to your contacts updates. There are also groups which makes it more like IRC without the flexibility.
If they ever try to push the other stuff at the expense of the text-messaging-replacement, I expect we’ll all migrate to something else.
But so did traditional media.
I’ve found it easier to stay connected after dropping social media, but I value direct communication far more than status updates. Time spent on social media is time not spent directly talking to someone, and it’s really tempting to send a message rather than call.
Not saying that they are not happy, but all the social media stuff feels so staged and unreal.
There are probably thousands of people in the world with the same name as you.