Der Tod des Status-Updates: Warum 55 % der Amerikaner aufgehört haben, in sozialen Medien zu posten
https://ca.pcmag.com/social-media/16790/the-death-of-the-status-update-why-55-of-americans-stopped-posting-on-social-media
Der Tod des Status-Updates: Warum 55 % der Amerikaner aufgehört haben, in sozialen Medien zu posten
https://ca.pcmag.com/social-media/16790/the-death-of-the-status-update-why-55-of-americans-stopped-posting-on-social-media
32 Kommentare
The only people who want to know what we’re thinking that much are the wrong kind of people.
Before reading the article I’m calling it. Because no one sees any posts they want to see and posting is just throwing it into the void of endless ads and slop.
Because we all collectively began to see how cringy it is and how often it is used against us. Also, nobody cares about what you ate for breakfast
It is no longer about keeping friends and family aware of you and now just noise. Beyond that, sites have gotten sketchy and turned the gullible against their country, their heath and the prosperity of their neighbors and country. At this point it is all bullshit used to train AI, why would you feed the beast.
I only know of 2 people in my entire circle of people who ever post anything anymore. When I deleted Facebook 7 years ago there were only a handful of people, but the only possible way of seeing their posts was by going directly to their page. Social media has been dead for a long time.
When they stopped fact checking, we lost interest.
I deleted my Facebook account at midnight on January 20, 2016 and my Twitter account the day Musk bought it.
Logged into Facebook for the first time in a while. Feed was all ads, posts from groups im not a member of, and a few posts from „friends“ that I’ve never talked to that were months old. Even refreshing multiple times brings up the same exact posts.
„Social Media Feels More Like Work Than Fun“
Part of what the article says
1. Everyone is realizing the price of posting and just how evil companies like Meta are. Privacy and data security are effectively dead and our information has been leaked several times over.
2. Content is only rewarded if it’s viral style. Normal updates are just lost in the noise. Why bother posting when you just can’t compete with what the algorithm wants?
3. Social media is a playground for scammers. If you comment on the post from a known celebrity, you are then immediately stalked by fake scammer accounts.
4. If the worst happens and your account gets hacked, you have zero recourse. There is zero support for users.
5. Tech oligarchs are the worst of human society. Mark Zuck has wasted untold billions on projects that failed miserably and engages in mass layoffs. The greed is unbearable and needs to be curbed.
Mostly cause I realized that it stopped being a way to be connected with my friends, and facebook just became less-funny reddit.
If someone could find away around facebooks ip to provide Facebook original , I’m pretty sure a bunch of us would be back. Maybe not as care free and loose with our personal content. I miss the early Facebook connections
No longer about connection. It’s about creating and curating „content“.
Because you can’t actually see your friends’ status updates anymore unless they posted some algorithm pumping engagement bait.
People just figured out all your data is being sold to private company’s and the government for spying and we have no privacy laws.
If anyone remembers project PRISM which was illegal well the government figured out a loophole you can use a company to harvest data and then just buy it from them.
That’s right folks you’re government is spying on you and you paid for them to do this.
Edit while we are on this topic people need to be aware by 2027 federal mandates that all vehicles have face and Iris scanners you need to pass to start your vehicle and it monitors as well as listens 247 as well as it can Killswitch your vehicle and report anything you do or say.
Bring back posting what you are eating…no just kidding.
FBM is the only reason I still have FB, since CL is basically dead and nobody ever responds on Offer Up.
I blame the platforms. They don’t want our words anymore they want our attention, so they can sell it.
There is nothing social about what is called social media. Our social groups aren’t ever shown to us. Only ads and content creators, which is ads. Oh and news which is ads.
Everything wants my attention and I want to give it to humans to know.
It’s because posting a status update used to feel ephemeral but now we know it’s forever. I wanted to communicate with my friends about my current thoughts not broadcast to corporations to update my ad preferences.
Most of my feed is race or gender baiting posts. No thank you.
Because it’s fucking stupid
Because influencers and corporation have made social media garbage. I am hardly seeing any posts from friends and families. The first things I see are ads or sponsored influencer nonsense followed by news and trending degenerate content.
Tired of ads and propaganda
If you’re still on Facebook, hit those three lines in the upper left corner, then “feeds”, then the “friends” tab. Voila, no more slop, no more crap, just the crap you’re friends post.
When I was younger, I posted statuses all the time. I stopped when, at a certain point, it felt like screaming into the void. There’s just no point to social media anymore. The only thing online thats „social“ of any worth are live chats like Discord.
Because social media is no longer about keeping up with your friends and family: it’s a tool to push socially divisive anger, misinformation, and conservative propaganda.
We are in desperate need of a new social network that has nothing to do with any of the sociopaths running the current ones and we need to be united in backing one.
Because it’s pointless, none of my friends see it through the bots and terrible algorithms. I barely just do life updates on Instagram or post pictures from vacations
Probably when the social media started becoming breeding grounds for hate instead of places to keep up and make connections.
I really hate the changes that facebook and instagram have made in order to chase after twitter’s success in the 2010s. Facebook and Instagram were great for keeping up with people I knew. I had like 20 friends on facebook who were real actual people I liked. I liked to see what they were doing in life after we graduated. I also followed a handful of local bands that I wanted to keep track of. I had maybe 15 or 20 people on Instagram. Same story.
Now facebook just shoves a ton of „for you“ shit in my face whether I want to see it or not. I’ve lost track of people that I cared about in favor of a bunch of AI generated slop, right wing propaganda, and ads for scams. It’s no wonder I don’t use facebook anymore. Why would I want that?
I think a lot of people came to realize how little they like the true selves of many of the people they know, and also realized how little others actually cared about them and what they have to say.