I deleted my Facebook years ago. I miss fb marketplace, but I just can't go back.
Yeah, my FB is honestly just there for relatives and a handful of others at this point. My FB has become more random nostalgia/nerby bait/event ads and the same 50 people over and over again RATHER than actual connection with close friends like it was in 2010.
I can't quite remember the article ATM, but there was a recent excellent article that discussed one of the major issues with modern social media/smartphones/laptops/etc-the expectation to "always be on" and "always be available" for discussion/questions/conversation because of course we "all" have our phones on us (and access to wifi/data) much more compared with say, 2009, when many of us just had flip phones or basic block phones and a single family computer/laptop. Wifi was not super widely available, and mobile data, what's that???
So that meant, if I was talking to someone on Facebook in 2009, I could just say BYE FOR NOW or GOODNIGHT and log off the computer for the night and that was it. We weren't expected to have internet/computer access all the time. It was expected that the computer was turned off, so you just gotta wait for me to log back on later! ("call me if it's important") But now, modern social media and Smartphones can almost make that feel "rude." That you always have to keep the convo GOING. Which can be super tiring, to always have to be "on."
In truth I've never been a social media person. Coming onto the forums was really my first venture into putting myself out there online, by way of actually speaking and engaging with others rather than just scrolling idly. I frequent YouTube and I have an Instagram account, but I don't post or hardly even press "like" on content. I watch it and move on.
I spend a lot of time on my phone and computer but it's essentially only because one of my partners is long distance and we primarily communicate through Discord.. but they have my phone number in case of anything serious and typically use that to contact me beyond text conversation anyhow. So I truly could do without.
How about you? How will you live a life that faces death?
Personally I don't even like social media sites. I will only go on Twitter to look for and find art that people made (which I don't know why people don't simply put tgeir art on an actual art site like pixiv and Newgrounds)(I can understand why they wouldn't want to use Furaffinity and Deviantart, but still, social media sites should only be used as a secondary option for artists), and I only have a Facebook account to follow Brandon Rogers and to hopefully one day be able to propose my video ideas to him.
I can't quite remember the article ATM, but there was a recent excellent article that discussed one of the major issues with modern social media/smartphones/laptops/etc-the expectation to "always be on" and "always be available" for discussion/questions/conversation because of course we "all" have our phones on us (and access to wifi/data) much more compared with say, 2009, when many of us just had flip phones or basic block phones and a single family computer/laptop. Wifi was not super widely available, and mobile data, what's that???
So that meant, if I was talking to someone on Facebook in 2009, I could just say BYE FOR NOW or GOODNIGHT and log off the computer for the night and that was it. We weren't expected to have internet/computer access all the time. It was expected that the computer was turned off, so you just gotta wait for me to log back on later! ("call me if it's important") But now, modern social media and Smartphones can almost make that feel "rude." That you always have to keep the convo GOING. Which can be super tiring, to always have to be "on."
Very interesting!
I never feel the need to keep a conversation going on FB, I basically just go on there to check in my groups once in a while and maybe buy or sell something, but I save my conversations for Discord usually. I only joined FB in the first place cause it made it easier to sign up for other websites as you could just use FB to do it for you and that was more convenient then having to manually input all of my user info for every website I wanted to sign up for.
I can't quite remember the article ATM, but there was a recent excellent article that discussed one of the major issues with modern social media/smartphones/laptops/etc-the expectation to "always be on" and "always be available" for discussion/questions/conversation because of course we "all" have our phones on us (and access to wifi/data) much more compared with say, 2009, when many of us just had flip phones or basic block phones and a single family computer/laptop. Wifi was not super widely available, and mobile data, what's that???
So that meant, if I was talking to someone on Facebook in 2009, I could just say BYE FOR NOW or GOODNIGHT and log off the computer for the night and that was it. We weren't expected to have internet/computer access all the time. It was expected that the computer was turned off, so you just gotta wait for me to log back on later! ("call me if it's important") But now, modern social media and Smartphones can almost make that feel "rude." That you always have to keep the convo GOING. Which can be super tiring, to always have to be "on."
Very interesting!
I never feel the need to keep a conversation going on FB, I basically just go on there to check in my groups once in a while and maybe buy or sell something, but I save my conversations for Discord usually. I only joined FB in the first place cause it made it easier to sign up for other websites as you could just use FB to do it for you and that was more convenient then having to manually input all of my user info for every website I wanted to sign up for.
Great point! Discord does feel more natural for DMs compared to FB Messenger or Instagram.
And FB is more convenient for logging in vs. handling a million number of $^#&usytjahsi passwords ("You may not use a password you have already used before" "your password must have _____, ___, ___, ____, ___, ____....)
And good for you having boundaries on conversation, I'm not the best at them. It just feels like I can't say NO when it comes to ending convos.
Personally I don't even like social media sites. I will only go on Twitter to look for and find art that people made (which I don't know why people don't simply put tgeir art on an actual art site like pixiv and Newgrounds)(I can understand why they wouldn't want to use Furaffinity and Deviantart, but still, social media sites should only be used as a secondary option for artists), and I only have a Facebook account to follow Brandon Rogers and to hopefully one day be able to propose my video ideas to him.
Yeah, as another poster mentioned, Twitter is simply among the best ways to "advertise" art due to sheer membership numbers and reach. For better or worse.
I used Deviantart once, but I've mostly switched out to the occasional Tumblr visit instead. I do think that Deviantart does have more flavor than Tumblr, or at least did. Both sites feel pretty milquetoast now overall. But that's a lot of social media. Part of me now misses the MySpace generation-yeah, the site could be OBNOXIOUS to the nth degree but at least there was color and energy and flavor.
In truth I've never been a social media person. Coming onto the forums was really my first venture into putting myself out there online, by way of actually speaking and engaging with others rather than just scrolling idly. I frequent YouTube and I have an Instagram account, but I don't post or hardly even press "like" on content. I watch it and move on.
I spend a lot of time on my phone and computer but it's essentially only because one of my partners is long distance and we primarily communicate through Discord.. but they have my phone number in case of anything serious and typically use that to contact me beyond text conversation anyhow. So I truly could do without.
Yeah, the DM function on Discord is pretty nifty! I also like the way groups are set up. I liked Facebook better when it had actual GOOD groups IMO. I loved chatting with people all over the world about books. Social media definitely helps with long distance, and dealing with awkwardly formatted texts...traditional texting on my phone sucks, so I actually prefer apps.
Same for Insta, I used to post tons of stuff but I slowed it down to a trickle because it was too much of a time suck and just felt like the same thing over and over. It's decently good for foreign language though.
In truth I've never been a social media person. Coming onto the forums was really my first venture into putting myself out there online, by way of actually speaking and engaging with others rather than just scrolling idly. I frequent YouTube and I have an Instagram account, but I don't post or hardly even press "like" on content. I watch it and move on.
I also most of the times forget to put a like on a video, only put it on videos and mostly songs that i like.
Post by forlornjackalope on Feb 14, 2024 23:09:43 GMT
Yeah, over the course of the pandemic, I've been gradually losing interest in a lot of social media platforms I used to be super active on.
I barely use Facebook anymore, unless it's just to pass some time and check out what events are coming up. I don't think I've used IG in over a year and TikTok for just about as long. If I'm lucky, I just shift between maybe here, Discord, Reddit, Youtube, Letterboxd, and Tumblr now - and it feels like I make "I'm not dead yet" posts to my blogs a few times a year now if my activity goes to a crawl. I'm burned out and just kind of bored. Plus, a lot of my friends I've made across different platforms have gone dark so it's not that fun without them here.
Yeah, over the course of the pandemic, I've been gradually losing interest in a lot of social media platforms I used to be super active on.
I barely use Facebook anymore, unless it's just to pass some time and check out what events are coming up. I don't think I've used IG in over a year and TikTok for just about as long. If I'm lucky, I just shift between maybe here, Discord, Reddit, Youtube, Letterboxd, and Tumblr now - and it feels like I make "I'm not dead yet" posts to my blogs a few times a year now if my activity goes to a crawl. I'm burned out and just kind of bored. Plus, a lot of my friends I've made across different platforms have gone dark so it's not that fun without them here.
Yeah I don't want to get like 8-10 different apps just to keep up with all my friends and family. That's why it was sort of relieving when there were just 1-2 major platforms and that was it (not counting websites like Deviantart that fill a specific niche, or old fashioned blogs). It got overwhelming to hear "get snapchat, get twitter, get tiktok, get Instagram, get Line, get WeChat or Whatsapp, get Pinterest, get Hive Social, etc." Like it just doesn't end, just recently, I have people already doing that new Bluesky thing now? Like how long will that even last?
I do like the events feature of social media to a certain extent, I've discovered interesting local stuff that way. Agree on the shifting too, with my shifting among days or even weeks fixated on one platform. But not all of them at once. I ain't got time for that. It's like being burned out mentally and emotionally with all the mindless scrolling and consumer mindset.
I keep kicking myself everytime I read YouTube comments. I use a third party app which is Newpipe and has a disabled comments feature.
Dumbass me was curious what people got to say on a The Dodo coverage about rattlesnake roundups. Even if you don't like snakes, I wouldn't recommend searching it up. Pretty graphic stuff. Anyways, I changed my settings and read the comments. By my dismay a few people see this as a no big deal. Like they straight up admit they don't mind animal abuse.
Everyone points out how shocking 4chan or kiwi farms is. But even under-the-radar comments exist in the YT comment section. The evil people show their true colors.
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Yeah, over the course of the pandemic, I've been gradually losing interest in a lot of social media platforms I used to be super active on.
I barely use Facebook anymore, unless it's just to pass some time and check out what events are coming up. I don't think I've used IG in over a year and TikTok for just about as long. If I'm lucky, I just shift between maybe here, Discord, Reddit, Youtube, Letterboxd, and Tumblr now - and it feels like I make "I'm not dead yet" posts to my blogs a few times a year now if my activity goes to a crawl. I'm burned out and just kind of bored. Plus, a lot of my friends I've made across different platforms have gone dark so it's not that fun without them here.
That's one of the reasons why i'm glad I still don't have a smartphone, it prevents me from doomscrolling and since I literally can't make TikTok without one I don't have to memory about being tempted to go down that route.
I keep kicking myself everytime I read YouTube comments. I use a third party app which is Newpipe and has a disabled comments feature.
Dumbass me was curious what people got to say on a The Dodo coverage about rattlesnake roundups. Even if you don't like snakes, I wouldn't recommend searching it up. Pretty graphic stuff. Anyways, I changed my settings and read the comments. By my dismay a few people see this as a no big deal. Like they straight up admit they don't mind animal abuse.
Everyone points out how shocking 4chan or kiwi farms is. But even under-the-radar comments exist in the YT comment section. The evil people show their true colors.
I feel like this is just one of those things that happens because the internet is THAT free of a place. But then again, as creepy as it is, I'd rather just have them stay in their animal abuse corner on freakin' Twitter or Facebook or wherever else they get it than have it be censored & thus they go to other places harassing. Just because I eat chicken wings & hamburgers doesn't mean what some people think. Heck, remember Temple Madem(I kinda forgot her name)? She made a system that allowed cows to at least be comfortable when about to be put on the chopping block to become an important part of a hamburger & at least we do keep a lot of cows alive. Meanwhile this rattlesnake thing is just stupid.
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Yeah, over the course of the pandemic, I've been gradually losing interest in a lot of social media platforms I used to be super active on.
I barely use Facebook anymore, unless it's just to pass some time and check out what events are coming up. I don't think I've used IG in over a year and TikTok for just about as long. If I'm lucky, I just shift between maybe here, Discord, Reddit, Youtube, Letterboxd, and Tumblr now - and it feels like I make "I'm not dead yet" posts to my blogs a few times a year now if my activity goes to a crawl. I'm burned out and just kind of bored. Plus, a lot of my friends I've made across different platforms have gone dark so it's not that fun without them here.
That's one of the reasons why i'm glad I still don't have a smartphone, it prevents me from doomscrolling and since I literally can't make TikTok without one I don't have to memory about being tempted to go down that route.
Good for you, part of me longs for those days of disconnection too. Flip phones were almost like a happy medium-they could do just enough to be cool and convenient but not enough to where you were distracted all the time.
The most I have done is disable nearly all app notifications except for 2 apps my job uses, and Messenger. And I just don't bother with almost any "newfangled" apps. I wait for any notable videos/text from those sites to just be reposted on the other social media sites I actually kinda still use (and/or Youtube). Heck, I only joined Instagram initially because a college club I really, really wanted to get in on ONLY used that app for whatever reason.
