After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like we’ve decided to share less. New polling shows that nearly a third of all social media users post less than they did a year ago. That trend is especially true for adults in Gen Z.
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4MNdCAnWA
“Engagement” algorithms broke it all, so you cant see what your friends write
millennial who quit all social media except Reddit/Lemmy (now just Lemmy) nearly a decade ago now.
it’s great for my mental health. the only issue is that Facebook decided to take over as being the new Craigslist with Marketplace so I feel like I’m missing out on the best sales of used items because i refuse to make an account and give Zuck my data
I’m a frequent Craigslist user for both sales and purchases. Selling stuff has become extremely difficult since Marketplace took over as the the “standard” for the area I live in. I’m in the same boat as I refuse to make an account on that shit heap of a website so getting my sales to move takes a lot more work.
It also does not help that the second-hand landscape has changed a lot in the past 5ish years. People expect a lot more money for their used items now and buyers expect steep discounts for like-new condition items.
I made a minimal account just to use Marketplace and then a few months later was permanently locked out of marketplace because some AI decided I was suspicious. It’s not with it.
When Facebook centered the algorithm over friend updates, I stopped posting updates for my friends.
They decided eyeballs were worth more than connecting friends. Fair enough, I’ll just leave.
I’d also say the “share” function was up there. I wanted to see real posts by my real friends that took real thought to post. Not shit shared at the click of a button.
Yeah, that was it. You could only post so many interesting updates, but a handful of people could “like” stuff all night long.
Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.
I’d rather just text my friends
I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.
Maybe being prey to the bald eagle of Big Tech is pushing people away from the original Internet “fever dream” (everyone will have a place and a say in the world).
