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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/
What do you think?
I am not sure. I have reconnected with good friends..lost because I have moved so often throughout my life. I have made many more, through printing and ceramics groups with common interests.
Kept in contact with cycling friends and family all round the world. Even our own children, as they live from three to eight hours drive...plus rest stops...away.
Managed to stay in contact with friends and family in Aotearoa NZ .
Met online friends and family in person where we could.
I know that the blogosphere is shrinking, although in the past three years a fair number on my following list have returned to blogging.
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Social media reminds me of that film - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Good in parts but can get really ugly at the end of the scale.
Interesting article. I never got sucked into Social Media too far -- I didn't take to Twitter and although I initially enjoyed Facebook, it quickly became overwhelming. I'm on it pretty rarely now. I like blogging because it feels more like real communication with a higher level of thoughtfulness and creativity. It feels less frantic and less poisonous.
Whoa--I totally disagree.
Ian B. sounds like someone with a lot of confidence and connections. But what about all the people who are isolated socially or physically, or for one reason or another cannot connect in person?
He doesn't mention the importance of social media for people who are not award-winning academics and writers like himself.
For me, social media (blogging and IG) has been and continues to be life-giving and friend-making.
And, I've heard or read people on the spectrum, including a couple friends of mine, talk about what a boon the Internet was/is for them socially, having had a hard time connecting with people in other ways.
A couple other friends I've met online through shared interests cannot leave their homes because of chronic illness, and they lead a lot of their lives online.
That article made me mad--it reeked of a self-important narrow view.
I think it depends on what is meant by Social Media.
Electronic communication is not going away. The forms are changing. Scrolls, books, magazines, newspapers have certainly all changed. As a for-profit system, maybe it's going to end. Phones are nothing like what they were when I was a child, or when my parents were children. Phones have not gone away.
But this reaching across the globe via mass social connections online, no, that is not ending. Changing, absolutely. Fecesbook and tweeter are too prone to abuses, as was MySpace and yes, blooger. Spammers and hoaxers will always use any medium to reach out and harm people.
Maybe blogging will have a quiet little resurgence. Humans are naturally chatty, and nothing is going to stop that.
I will stick with Blogger, it's a slow pace and I have come to meet or know several bloggers so feel 'connected'. facebook I use for work colleages and distance family and twitter and the rest I can't understand, too fast for me. Since taking my allotment I have a nice social scene with people once a week where we meet in person, enjoy food and drink and I think moving back to this kind of interraction is healthy and what we need more of :)
I love our blogging community. It seems a lot kinder place than Facebook.
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