Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline, especially among teens and twentysomethings
It is largely unpleasant, deliberately unrewarding yet addictive, occasionally punished, politically slanted towards billionaires, and a privacy nightmare. If anything it’s a testament to the human desire for connection that we’ve used it this long.
Constantly having the right-wing views of weapons grade cunts shoved into your eyeballs will do that.
I started using social media to connect with friends and family, old and new, and to interact with the humans in my local community.
But those people are buried under a pile of ads, scams, and “suggestions” about shit I don’t care about.
Not to mention the absolutely wild privacy violations on an ongoing and increasingly dystopian basis.
Because you’re now interacting with unhinged strangers or unhinged family members and no one wants to deal with that in their daily lives.
This isn’t like the days of Myspace or early Facebook or even old PHP forums where you essentially chose who you interacted with and in turn selected who could interact with you. But it’s also the fact, at least for me personally, I just don’t want to share all the details that go on in my life anymore with everyone. It used to be I could post something personal online and only the people I trusted or very close friends could see it and thats who I wanted to see it. I didn’t want my Parents to stumble across the fact that a girl I was dating had a weird/unique fetish or whatever. Once my parents got on Facebook then it was over.
Social media is fine when you’re allowed to keep it within a contained, personal, and customized environment. Once you open the flood gates and allow EVERYONE into your life you might as well be screaming on a street corner about what you had for breakfast.
The thing is in the early days you had some control. Now you don’t.
But by the settings have been removed and our personal content has been squirrelled off to be regurgitated for tech bots narrative. Anything someone might see now It’s not the real shared me. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster virtual version of me where only my ability to sell something or convey the current message gets through to others. Because that’s all that is of value to them, not what is of help to me. I started censoring a long time ago as I suspect many other did.
But if anyone wants to know I had eggs at bennys for breakfast and they were OMG (insert orgasm face) they are so well priced too, get down there asap and get some before benny meets an untimely end. Don’t forget to subscribe for more money saving breakfasts. /S
Antisocial media
because it was always kinda dumb.
It’s just filled with so much misinformation and lately it just kind of makes my stomach turn the way we talk/interact to one another that would never happen IRL though tbh the way society is going i wouldn’t be surprised if it did spill over
I value my privacy
For me personally, AI slops are destroying everything.
I don’t want to be in places where every time I read or see something I have to wonder if I’m interacting with another human or a robot, it’s awful.
And it has become also more difficult to find interesting content when at every turn you find AI crap overtaking everything else, it’s tiring.
Social media is a horrible place to be, the only one i kept was Instagram but i closed my account last year because it was full of ads, spam and fascist bs.
I’d wager a lot of them are growing up and realizing just how much of their lives have been wasted on nothing.
