I used to love posting on Twitter. Wordplay, anecdotes, that sort of thing. There were a good number of interesting people and I made friends with many of them. So much more interesting than the people I know in real life, I remember thinking Slowly, however, things began to change. An entire army of people seemed to inhabit the twitterverse whose sole purpose was to take offense. I slowly stopped using Twitter for conversation. I used it now only for broadcasting. If I think I have a nice, ripe anecdote to tell, I tell it and disappear, without bothering to hang around assuaging the feelings of everyone whom my personal anecdote has pained in some way. I have an aunt who is hard of hearing, but pretends she isn't. The upshot of this is she keeps talking at a steady pace even when someone else is trying to interrupt her. And when she is done talking, she sits and looks as if she is interestedly listening to every word the other person is saying, except she's not hearing a thing. That, in my opinion, is how social media ought to be done.
On Mon, 4 Sept, 2023, 15:35 Deepak Misra via Silklist, < [email protected]> wrote: > Quora - destroyed (mostly by Indians) > Linkedin - destroyed (-do-) to help in any form of professional networking > . See https://twitter.com/StateOfLinkedIn > FB/INsta - On its way to destruction in current form. Too high > advertisement+noise/signal ratio. I do post random stuff once in a while, > mostly fun stuff and my reach is very limited so I am not sure why I do > it. The absolute idiotic stuff gets some engagement if one goes by likes > and the things I consider deep or insightful has none. SO my main use is as > a book mark maybe? > twitter - has the highest potential if used properly but I am still trying > to figure out how to optmize the tar pit it has become > > Deepak > > > On Sat, 2 Sept 2023 at 08:53, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting article [1] and excellent line : "social media has become >> less social and more media". >> >> Speaking for myself, my publicly visible social media usage has generally >> been "sharing things I read that I find interesting" - dating from the >> first social media site as it is understood today, sixdegrees. This >> continues to be the case. >> >> But looking at the actual meaning of *social* *media*, however, I can see >> consistency in my usage of closed (or semi-closed, such as special interest >> usenet groups like sci.crypt) groups, ranging across usenet, email, and, >> since the pandemic began, closed whatsapp groups. >> >> What does your social media historical usage look like? >> >> Udhay >> >> >> [1] >> https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/social-media-is-dead-and-group-chats-killed-it/articleshow/103210085.cms >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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