Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one’s posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

  • TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    That’s not true. I post on Lemmy and Mastodon, which I consider social media. I don’t think that websites that communication based on algorithms aiming to serve unsocial purposes should be considered social media.

        • marmo7ade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yes, this is a social media hit piece. MSM hates social media because it’s a way for the public to circumvent their lies. The entire article is based on (likely fabricated) anecdotal evidence:

          “It’s really bizarre to me that everyone’s gone to this place in their mind that content has to be so curated,” Bruening told us. “So curated that you can’t show what you’re cooking for dinner, because that’s not cool enough.”

          Everyone? Did they take a global survey? Do they see my instagram feed? This person just has shitty friends. Or they are lying.

      • TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        A city and a village are both social structures. I prefer to live in a nice, small village rather than isolated in a horrible city, even if there is only a small number of people who communicate with me. I love this place. Facebook? Not really. Big media? Not at all.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I think there’s two types really. There’s the “hey family, look at my photos and shit that nobody else will care about” social media, and “screaming opinions into the void” social media.

      Lemmy and Mastodon are the latter. I guess you can use Mastodon as the former, but I suspect there are better places for that, even if they’re currently spread across a dozen instant messaging apps.

    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was gonna react without reading the article, because the interaction is what I use lemmy for, and what I used reddit for, the social part of social media.

      Anyway, I thought the post was talking about things we like sharing with our friends, families, colleagues, and other groups of acquaintances, which was confirmed by reading the first anecdote, which is of someone talking about sharing what they cooked.

      I have always preferred messaging groups for such sharing, so to me it’s not too much of a shock, but I have noticed what the article claims and have enjoyed being able to withdraw from most vapid forms of social media without disconnecting from friends entirely.