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.
Wait, what the heck is BeReal? I’ve never heard of it before?
Does that mean I’m old now?
I literally had the same reaction lol
Even us old people should know that he’s the guy from Cypress Hill
At the start of each school year some niche social media gains popularity, simply because each year wants something new and “untainted”. Last year BeReal benefitted from this. It likely won’t survive for long as they’re losing users now
It reminds me of SnapChat back in the day when every other social network started copying their features. TikTok has “TikTok Now” now which is what BeReal was.
It’s a new Chaturbate.
Took you a while, but yes.
For a long time I’ve posted actively to Facebook and then at the end of the year I have my pictures and top posts printed up in a nice “yearbook.” There’s a service that does this (but I’m not here to advertise them). Anyway I am raising kids through these years so sharing milestones and pictures with faroff friends and family is very rewarding.
But I’ve stopped posting so much that I don’t think there will be a yearbook for this year. It’s just not worth it anymore. Not enough people are going to see my posts, either because they’re no longer visiting or the fucking algorithm has something catchier to show them. Whatever I put up gets the same likes from the same 8 arbitrary people and that’s it.
It’s sad because my kids love those books and leaf through them all the time, like a kind of family album. I guess it’s time for another solution.
Related footnote: the “people you may know” feature is just pure comedy now. It’s been forever since it actually connected me to anyone real. It’s showing me coworkers’ adult children now and my neighbor’s dentist and realtor and shit like that. I still look at it, but only for the laughs.
I get a yearbook from my iphone camera without posting to anything, just from taking photos. Social media isn’t needed for that feature.
Yep I will probably go for something like that. The Facebook based one offers more than just the pictures though. Also comments and text posts and link posts, etc.
I think now is a good time to forgo or reduce posting the images to Facebook and simply curate the photos yourself from your collection and make the photo album yourself.
If it’s for your kids, I think it’s worth it to make regardless of if it’s worth it to post it.
Doesn’t Google Photos produce something similar from stored photos? I don’t use it much myself, as I don’t take many photos, but I’ve used it to view screenshots & such on my phone & I seem to recall something like that.
If so, would definitely be an option to avoid posting while producing a similar yearbook/photo album.
I can’t imagine Google doesn’t have such functionality, since Apple has had it for years and they’re nearly never first to market with a feature.
It does. One Drive does too.
Google will literally sell you photo books.
Only in limited countries (might be US only actually)
Oh, that makes sense.
The entire concept of just sharing images of your kids online is weird to me to me begin with. Just make a photo album like everyone else did prior to social media.
This person is upset the same 8 people are liking their photos, give up on the need for attention and just live your life.
I mean I post pretty regularly to my fediverse accounts
Megalomaniac billionaires ruined social media in their effort to control the narrative and ruin privacy. It was a neat idea when it was just a way to keep up with people you were interested in.
Well people turning out to be mostly idiots didn’t help
That effort is the reason social media emerged. The Web before them was sufficient, it had human-curated website directories and RSS (though that I began noticing later), and web rings, and in general was fulfilling its purpose.
Now, the idea was to centralize everything under Zuck or someone else’s control. And from the very beginning it was even more ominous than now, cause people usually knew then that in the Web you should be pseudonymous, except for your personal webpage, and also that what gets out doesn’t get back in, and that an account on some site doesn’t belong to you.
What I’m disgusted with personally is how the transition to social media was spearheaded by clueless illiterate people, and instead of protecting the culture everybody else just decided that they are right and we are wrong.
Social media is dead. Long live decentralize social media!
WTF is BeReal?
Clearly it’s Cypress Hill’s lead voice … oh wait… I’m old
Like the other comments say it’s an app which prompts users to post a picture at “the same” time. Its not actually the same time due to timezones.
The idea behind it is that you don’t ge to pick the perfect time for a pic when you’re at that great location or you’re looking especially cute. This means you’ll get an insight in the real life of someone.
Practically that means you’ll just see a lot of pictures of your friends whilst they’re laying on the couch 2 feet deep in a bag of crisps.
It’s an app that encourages users at a random time to share an image of their immediate surroundings, trying to kind of push an authentic feel. I remember hearing about it from some memes a year or so ago
Isn’t that, like, a massive invasion of privacy?
It’s optional so eh, but it doesn’t encorurage healthy habits either
So lots of pictures of feet in front of toilets…
No idea. This feels like a stealth ad for whatever that is. They’re putting it up there with social media people actually use so maybe people will consider it, but this is literally the first time I’ve seen the name.
Agree. Never heard of bereal either
BeReal hit #1 on the app stores by promising a more genuine social experience. It was popular for months, but the gimmick got boring and it fell off.
Yeah, my friends and I used it a lot for about 6 months before we just stopped because it would start sending notifications at times when we were busy, but I would forget about it after a few minutes since I didn’t care much about using it. Sometimes I was in a lecture hall busy taking notes, other times I wouldn’t even check my phone and miss the notification to post.
Social media is dead
Finally, some good news.
I mean, we are on social media now.
Tell that to my therapist.
Parasocial or antisocial media would fit the function of these platforms better.
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I’m not in any group chats so I’m just lonely and depressed out of my mind how about that
What kind of things are you into?
If you need something to talk, I’m all open ears.
User nutsack needs to confide in user Mcballs1234
I didn’t even noticed their username, its balls time
LoL same, but I apparently refuse to throw every ounce of myself into one hobby or am just a stranger so not to be trusted or invited to stuff so I too shall be lonely with you but very very separate.
“No one is posting on social media anymore”
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It’s not just you
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Other apps like Dispo, Poparazzi, and Locket have all used various gimmicks to try and recapture social media’s halcyon days — each had a moment in the sun at the top of the US Apple app-store charts — but none have truly broken through.
For instance, the content creator Nina Haines launched a group called SapphLit, a self-described “sapphic book club born out of the queer BookTok community.”
Victoria Johnston, a 22-year-old software engineer, imagines the ideal social-media platform as a “safe space where people can just connect and you don’t feel pressured to have a big following or a presence or be really well known.”
And as more users and creator communities migrate toward closed spaces, the behemoths like Instagram are also trying to capitalize on this reality by introducing features like paid-subscription services that offer exclusive group chats.
Lia Haberman, an adjunct professor at UCLA Extension and an advisor for the American Influencer Council, said that Gen Alpha, the age cohort of 13 and younger, are “not embracing traditional social-media platforms and customs.”
It’s hard to know how the change will affect the online atmosphere over the long term — some evidence suggests the shift will create a healthier digital experience, but it also risks further dividing people into like-minded echo chambers.
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I won’t read either.
This was a very interesting read. Hard to predict how social media platforms will look in 10 years
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That’s basically Friendica imo
OurSpace
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Is there an ActivityPub version of Facebook or Instagram?
Frendica and Pixelfed.
Pixelfed?
My time capsule of cringe will remain closed, thank you very much.
Don’t know if this is sarcasm, but I happen to agree to some extent.
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Nice! Meanwhile I’m in another thread where someone is telling me I’m backward thinking that some might want something remotely like myspace back.
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“no one is posting” posted by a bot and commented by AutoTL;DR bot !
Exactly the point.
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in the end it will just be bots talking to bots all the way down
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My Fantasy and SF book lovers goup on Facebook has more posts per day than I can read and gets new members every day. My music groups on Facebook have even more posts and content. Linkedin has more and more social posts (not a good thing, but hardly on the decline)
Article is clearly written by someone with no initiatve or personality or insight.
Linkedin has more and more social posts (not a good thing,
True that. I hate every part of LinkedIn that is chat or posting. Resumés, job openings, private chat, fuck everything else.
LinkedIn might have one of the worst cultures of any social media, with all that gross performative grindset stuff.
LinkedIn might have one of the worst cultures of any social media, with all that gross performative grindset stuff.
“He’s on LinkedIn, Lemon. He might as well be dead.”
- Jack, 30 Rock
Facts! I’d rather hang around 4chan at least they are somewhat entertaining. LI are sociopaths in a giant circle jerk for validation and clout.
Now I understand why my narcissist brother was always on LI
Maybe because people write everything like cringy edgelords when in reality, it’s like hey I got laid off or hired. But it spills out like a life altering manifesto for the that’s so transparently about clout and validation. Hard pass.
Bruh they used “BeReal” as if it belonged in the same conversation as Instagram, and Meta. That alone puts them way out there.
Good point!
The only reason I check “social media” is to hear about local events, so to see ads I actually want to see.
Same. I am happy using discord or family/friend group chats to keep up with them, but I need a ‘town square’ where I can go and learn what events are on nearby, what restaurants are doing special nights etc. But I don’t want that town square to sell me ads, I just want to look at the notice board and see what new stuff takes my fancy. So how do we connect the consumers to the businesses without having an overlord who will try to sell things to the consumers by charging the businesses?
