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This is as close as I get to social media.

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By 2025 it will all be chatbots posting disinformation for the enjoyment of other bots, while advertising bots pay for it.

I think that number will grow as Twitter continues to decay. People clinging to the dead corpse is pretty cringe when it comes to Twitter.

Facebook is dead already I feel and most people I know using it are only in there for old people who can’t use anything else or for the marketplace. Under the same umbrella, instagram is dead unless you’re selling something.

Forums like Reddit and lemmy I think will last the longest, but even then when the toxicity grows and transfers over from Reddit to here I probably will stop using it as much

Also I say dead as in what it originally was has been lost in the wake of “influencers” and companies

let all social media die in flames.

its nothing but a cancer on society and counts among the worst ills to befall mankind.

I don't understand what social media has to offer me anymore.

I wish I could retroactively go back and never use Facebook. That site ruined my life for several years

To the comments of old people on Facebook - I'm fifty one years old. I deactivated but did not delete my Facebook account five years ago.

This past fall, one of our high school classmates finally succumbed to his addictions. He and I were inseparable back in the day to the extent that if anybody thought of one of us, they automatically thought of the other.

So I felt compelled to say a few words. I reactivated my account, and said my words. I was shocked at the number of replies I got because I couldn't believe that many people were still using the platform. I figured everybody would have left by now.

I left my post up for a week, then deactivated my account again.

Ten years ago, Facebook was a great way to meet women for people in my age group. Unfortunately, when there's a contentious breakup and you've got hundreds of mutual friends, it could and did turn into a social hell scape. That's what got me to leave. I think I got out before the rampant disinformation really got going. For this, I am grateful. (Coda to this topic: Ladies, seriously, what drives you to aggressively slide into my DMs when you see I've recently been through a horrible breakup? Why would you think this is a good time to pursue me? This happened with several people. I did not understand it and found it horribly off-putting.)

Unfortunately, without social media, I've found it difficult to stay in touch with friends who live far away. But that little downside is not enough for me to go back.

Wrong 50%, unfortunately.

That really doesn’t come out right, does it?

Just the people with some level of critical thinking will leave, the ones festering in fringe and conspiracy thought patterns will remain, and likely pull more in like them.

When it changed from "Social Media" to "Social Media" it really went to shit. That and when Google's new board decided "don't be evil" was no longer compatible with their goals. Yeah, the internet used to be great...

I'm somewhat surprised to hear it'd be as high as 50%. Pleased, but surprised.

I feel it has already happened.. people check social media, but I hardly see any created content anymore (status updates etc).. just reposted stuff from gullible people that they thought was magic but was just AI created rubbish.

The only thing I use social media for is purchasing items from hobby groups and I can’t see that being replicated anywhere anytime soon as eBay is full of fake rubbish

Social media today has devolved into a hard-up drunk at closing time telling the drunk woman next to him that she is beautiful and really a great lady.

I find myself wanting to kill time by using my phone and scrolling, even Lemmy, and realizing it's not doing anything for me. Just a comfort scroll. I think I'll probably kick the social media/scrolling habit completely within the next year.

Yep. This is the primary thing preventing me from contributing to, and recommending Lemmy. People confidently posting and upvoting harmful misinformation, and toxic/unintelligent people. I've already left Reddit and Facebook (a long time ago) for similar reasons.

The prime problem is that every social space eventually becomes a circlejerk. Bots and astroturfing exacerbate the problem but it exists perfectly fine on its own -- in the early 2000s I had the misfortune of running across plenty of gigantic, years-long circlejerks where definitely no bots or nefarious foreign manipulators were involved (I'm talking console wars, Harry Potter ship wars, stupid shit like that). People form circle jerks in the same way that salts form crystals. It's just in their nature.

The thing with circlejerks isn't that there's overwhelming agreement on some subject. You'll get dunked on in most any social media space for claiming that the Earth is flat or that Putin is a swell guy, that in itself is obviously not a problem. What makes a circlejerk is that takes get cheered for and upvoted not in proportion to how much they are anchored in reality, but in proportion to how useful they are in galvanizing allies and disrupting enemies. Whoever shouts "glory to the cause" in the most compelling way gets all the oxygen. At that point the amount of brain rot is only going to increase. No matter how righteous the cause, inevitably there comes the point where you can go on the Righteous Cause Forum and post "2+2=5, therefore all glory to the cause" and get 400 upvotes.

Everyone talks a big game about how much they like truth, reason and moral consistency, but in the end when it's just them and the upvote button and "do I stop and honestly examine this argument that gives me warm fuzzy feelings", "is it really fair to dunk on Hated Group X by applying a standard I would never apply to anyone else" -- the true colors show. It's depressing and it makes most of social media into information silos where totalizing ideologies go to get validated, and if you feel alienated by this then clearly that space isn't for you.

everyone in southeast asia gets their news from fake secondhand captioned screenshots on facebook

What’s up with that graphic showing google+? What is this, 2019?

This is an Indian news outlet but I hope it includes the whole world. I have certainly logged off of all social media -besides Lemmy.

I did it 3 years ago and have not looked back! I do miss keeping up with some friends and Facebook events are nice but the toxicity just got to be to much

I already shunned it. For about 4 years now. I don't feel like I'm missing anything.