• john89@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Weird, considering facebook does all the shit those other sites do.

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      15 hours ago

      Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn’t been cool for probably over 15 years

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        15 hours ago

        Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?

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          15 hours ago

          That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by “new,”, it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.

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            the feed sorted by “new,”

            Yeah, and it went from “let’s just add some stuff” to outright “we will force feed you this slop and you will like it” from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas’ foie gras.

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          That’s when it was cool to teens who didn’t have .edu emails addresses (but not long after).

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        11 hours ago

        “In the beginning:”

        Facebook was a MySpace alternative for “academics” (college students / alums) instead of teens.

        LinkedIn was a MySpace alternative for “professionals” instead of teens.

        Forums were an evolution of BBSs that predated “social” media because it wasn’t you, it was an avatar, a fake persona you created rather than “first name,” “last name.”

        ICQ and Skype were purely chat platforms, competing in a completely different space.

        I have no idea what point this rant is trying to make but all the comparisons between services are way off base.

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          but all the comparisons between services are way off base.

          My experience in Russia. No, they are not off base. Just naturally there are different PoVs and for you it may be something entirely else. You can think about that before saying something is wrong.

          MySpace

          Say, I’m not sure many people even knew of that where I am.

          Forums were an evolution of BBSs that predated “social” media because it wasn’t you, it was an avatar, a fake persona you created rather than “first name,” “last name.”

          People using real names in the Web were the weird ones, but it was normal to meet IRL those you know via forums.

          I have no idea what point this rant is trying to make

          Your failure, not mine.

    • lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      It’s not about why owns it. It’s about where young people can be without getting bothered by their parents and other old people.

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        I’m 41…you telling me the kids today don’t think of me as the greatest person who ever existed??? Pssshhh that’s malarkey! I won’t hear of it! EVERYONE thinks I’m the greatest person who ever existed! My lexicon includes words like “malarkey” and “lexicon”! Kids think that’s cool right???

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        That’s about phone number requirement for signup. Not about platforms.

        OK. Life is life.

        I’ve just had a traumatic memory of one young person, a girl (with possibly undiagnosed ASPD), from 13 years ago.

        Feel nausea and want to throw up every time thinking about that kind of places, dynamics, emotions.

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      11 hours ago

      Ah, the curse of algorithmic social network. It’s full of angry middle-aged men if you follow those / interact with them. There are / were big communities formed around various pop stars on Twitter and those are quite different demographics.

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    That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren’t “abandoning” FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.

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    16 hours ago

    A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they’re counting Instagram in those metrics?

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    15 hours ago

    Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?

    I don’t consider WhatsApp social media.

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      WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.

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    13 hours ago

    WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?

    Damn, who saw that coming.

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    13 hours ago

    well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do

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    Isn’t whatsapp for old people? Drag uses Discord instead. It’s not great, but at least it doesn’t hack your phone.