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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)

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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also no. I meant the forums, chat rooms and instant messengers we had right before Facebook and Twitter ruined it all.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I grew up on those and they were all awful, take off the rose tinted glasses and you'll see those chat rooms were basically twitch chat with more sexual predators.

And forums still exist and they're still awfull, having to read fifty stupid comments of people saying totally off topic 'yes Bob, we got our cat six years ago' but it fills the entire screen because he's quoted the entire script of life of Brian in his signature. Finally you find someone replying to the question you were interested in but it's only to ask another question do you got fifty more comments from poorly replying to questions in the OP which have been answered hours ago but they didn't bother reading the thread before posting.

And there's a million great messenger apps out there, of course none of them are as good as they used to be because they don't have my childhood friends on, or if they do they're all to busy with kids and carers to come ride bikes.