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Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: According to a new study from marketing intelligence firm SimilarWeb, people are spending less time on social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. The company analyzed Android users' daily time spent on these social networks from January to March 2016 with the same period in 2015, which included data from the U.S., UK, Germany, Spain, Australia, India, South Africa, Brazil and Spain. Instagram usage was down 23.7 percent this year, Twitter usage was down 23.4 percent, Snapchat usage was down 15.7 percent, and Facebook usage was down 8 percent. Daily usage was down even more in the U.S. for most of the apps. In the U.S., Instagram usage was down 36.2 percent, Twitter was down 27.9 percent, Snapchat was down 19.2 percent but Facebook only fell 6.7 percent. Current installs for the four big social networks were down nine percent year over year. Meanwhile, Facebook's messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger increased their installs by 15 percent and 2 percent respectively.
Burned by data costs, not playing anymore.
Gritty.
Imagine that!
and become a internet backwater that almost nobody visits anymore, and zuckerberg have a breakdown and lose his mind and starts wandering the streets with a cardboard sign with some silly religious end times comment on it
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
And nothing of value was lost...
A Correlation?
This has nothing to do with the FUD that's being spread about alleged privacy invasions. It's more likely that the change in how stories are presented in news feeds and, in some cases, the amount of spam drive down the amount of time people spend on social media. Also, after awhile, the appeal of social media networks, like anything else, will wear off. People just aren't as interested in using social media now than they were.
Well, it was just a matter of time to get this kind of trending, after all, the social media it's just another form of fashion.
devoid of all meaningful value.
Now that the world has discovered that they are actually being stalked by a bunch of creepy (((Americans)))
As far as I know, group chat does not need privacy options and there is no adverts anywhere to be seen.
Privacy is a bitch, with HHRR matching public Facebook profiles to CVs. Nobody wants to try to keep up with the latest tweaks to the policy settings.
Adverts also take a considerable portion of the screen, something you do not have on a mobile phone. Aand to make things worse, FB introduced a new policy of not showing all of your posts to your followers. Now, if you are a paying customer, that is another story.
I have not hear if any IM application that has these two issues. Well, many apps might share instantaneous information like location, but not your posts with strangers.
It is not new anymore.
People realize it is a sinkhole for their time.
There is a limit to how long people can delude themselves into believing they have so many 'friends'.
v1 was great. v2 tries to be more, but is isn't.
Ever more demanding of personal data.
It is not about contact between people anymore. It is 'celebrity' accounts managed by agencies, corporate accounts managed by Image consultants and those awful web-care teams.
Everyone is truing to sell either some goods or themselves.
etc, etc
People are tired of social media platforms that welcome chinks, kikes, wetbacks, and niggers. Speaking out against towelheads on Facebook is likely to cause your posting privileges to be suspended. People are tired of having the truth censored and want to be able to speak freely about these threats to their life and liberty. Let people speak freely and tell the truth about things like this and you'll see the traffic go back up. Commenting on Slashdot is also down because comments that speak the truth (like this one) generally get modded to -1. That, too, is a form of censorship by community standards, which drives people away.
"Social Media" was new and interesting 5-10 years ago, now just like every other type of media it's just mostly noise and ads, so the novelty of having other's opinions rammed down your throat is wearing off.
Like newspapers, tv and other media sources, "social media" will slowly dilute while the kids will find something newer and shinier to waste their time on (probably also labelled social media, but will actually be something other than FB and Twitter).
People are just getting bored with it.
I deleted my facebook and Twitter accounts (permanently deleted, not that stupid "I'm going away for a while" setting they have) and I feel much better now. At some point I realized I got a lot of stress from them and no joy.
One viewpoint: The novelty of it was intoxicating for a good bit, but truthfully why would we keep spending inordinate amounts of time lavishing over other people's mundane, narcissistic and self-referential postings is a good question; that is, outside of the type who religiously buys gossip magazine at the supermarket checkout counter?
Arguably these mega-networks have killed off many specialized community boards and once-thriving discussion groups. Perhaps some of them will make a comeback, safely outside of the constant fake stimuli that could drive anyone to ADD by being subjected to the never-ending barrage of unwanted information, "The Assault Of Status Updates"?
Other more likely viewpoint: I personally doubt the above; more probably and since there are a finite number of people on the planet, and given their massive sizes, it's just that the statistics indicate that they are slowly starting to run out of new customers.
You get 2 free mod points if you sign in instead of post as the coward you are.
Are you the same person posting this same bigoted crap on every single discussion? Stop it, no one wants to hear your version of the "truth." Mostly because it's not true and you're just an asshole.
Maybe people just don't like the apps, that doesn't seem like the best way to test total usage.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Making violent threats is illegal. Your post reads as exactly such a threat. Perhaps some legal action is in order.
This is a very important point.
Despite claiming to be against bullying, we've repeatedly seen the Social Justice crowd use shaming and online character attacks in order to bring harm to anyone who dares express an idea that the Social Justice crowd does not agree with.
Much like everything else it touches, Social Justice absolutely destroys the viability and value of Social Media.
The chilling effect that Social Justice has on free thought and free expression means that Social Media sites of any popularity quickly degrade to a politically correct Social Justice "circle-jerk".
Aside from a small number of academics who take Social Justice seriously and the militant leftists who use Social Justice as a means to attack and control others, normal people want nothing to do with such bland, pathetic, useless discussion.
It doesn't surprise me at all that we're seeing people losing interest in Social Media now that the Social Justice crowd has ruined it.
It also doesn't surprise me that we're seeing the decline of Social Media just as we're seeing the rise of President Trump.
Both are caused by the same thing: Social Justice and the negative impact it has on normal people, driving these normal people to change their behavior to try to deflect the wrath of Social Justice.
i would be interested in seeing how this decrease correlates with the dirty tricks that sites pull and the level of bullshit/advertisements people are exposed to or shunned for blocking. i suspect a strong correlation between disrespecting your members and people spending less time using your service.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
In Trump's case, racists wanna racist and they're throwing a fit by backing him.
I suspect that the social media withdrawl is actually related more to harassment from rwnj type gamer gaters than it is from people who are trying to work for equality and fairness for everyone.
With all of the security, personal, and business issues who is surprised? I've seen this coming for awhile. According to FB I live way down under and it's not Australia. Social Media can kiss my... I recall being criticized by a potential employer for having a big NULL when it comes to my social media behavior. That disturbed me and even led me to a more anti-social media stance. It has all been hijacked by commercial interests.
The inherent rightness of equality and fairness for everyone is a no-brainer. That also implies tolerance and being willing to listen respectfully to one another, two attributes not present in the SJW camp.
Could it be that people are reconnecting on Facebook and etc, and so they no longer need it to feel connections? Social media can try as they like, but they have no real place in the real world, talking, touching, laughing, listening, seeing, if you can do this, then looking at your phone becomes disconnecting.
red herring that all trump supporters are racists. It makes you look stupid. And you're supposed to be the smart side.
All dems are socialist ?
I never got into it, but I do know a bunch of people who poured way more than a healthy amount of time into World of Warcraft when it was cool in the late 2000s. Granted, there's still a whole cadre of totally hardcore players out there, but that number is way down. Not surprisingly the same thing is happening with social media - people are getting tired of the new toy and want their lives back. I think more people realize they're being tracked and advertised to, the useful-to-crap ratio is going down, and maybe just maybe people are getting tired of staring at their phones all day long. So kind of like WoW...lots of people figured out there was little point to keep grinding and leveling up characters in a world that doesn't really exist.
I don't really want to see Dotcom Bubble 2.0 bust the same way 1.0 did, but I do feel it's getting toward that time. I just hope it'll go slower and not take so much of a toll. Hopefully it'll happen soon and some of the idiotic unicorn VC money can get poured into something useful that isn't just "X service on your phone" instead. Not looking forward to the "AngularJS Engineers" and "Cloud Infrastructure Architects" who will no doubt be flooding the job marketing like the "HTML Programmers" did last time.
You are being censored because your message is unwanted. The overwhelming majority have no patience for your views and opinions. You are welcome to them, just don't expect anyone else too and if you try to express them here, yeah, this is our way of telling you to stop posting hate speech or leave. You are firmly in the wrong on this and you aren't changing anyone's mind.
Predicting that a moronic racist asshole will commit suicide is not a 'violent threat', which just proves what a low-grade moron you really are (no reading comprehension), and the only 'truth' your 'comment' revealed is how dumb and irrelevant you really are. I'm voting Libertarian, by the way, because I don't think either your boy Trump or Hillary are qualified or trustworthy to be POTUS, but I'd almost consider voting for Clinton if I thought it would make you fly into such an incoherent rage that you'd have an embolism and drop dead. So, again: How about you either stop being a wilfully ignornant piece of crap, or just kill yourself? Either way, problem solved! Now fuck off back to reddit, or 4chan/pol/, or whatever containment unit you escaped from. Go take your meds, too, lunatic fringe.
Facebook bought Oculus. Zuckerberg saw this coming and knew he needed to diversify.
Let's start with a comment we'll agree on: I'm being an asshole when I post stuff like that. I know it and you do too. Just like you hate racists (and I despise real racists), I also despise SJWs who get their panties in a bunch over shit like supposed microaggressions and every little thing they pretend is offensive. I'm trying to drive them crazy with offensive posts in hopes they realize that all their petulant whining won't change anyone.
Gary Johnson does not impress me. He doesn't even seem like a true libertarian. By the way, I'm voting for Hillary, not Trump.
it's because they're all reading slashdot!
And *I'd* say guilt, guilt all around. Since when is it sociable or any other effective human virtue to ruin people from behind a screen?
I've been using computer communications since the early 1980's and this trend will not go away: people get online, they feel the power of either distance or anonymity, and they abuse it. Most users will abuse distance or anonymity at least once in their online life, to say things that they wouldn't say IRL or F2F, or to cast calumny on someone and ruin their life with lies and undue social scorn.
Well in the 1980's we had what, maybe a dozen new modem users in a given town, in a year. Outside of business and academic circles, you could expect very few new "faces" on local access BBS's. With the internet, it's more matched to the rate of population growth. So while you could study and isolate this abusive phenomenon fairly easily in the 1980's, from the 90's onward it just becomes the new normalcy.
So SJW's are nothing more than the flamer crowd from the BBS scene, ruining message bases with arguments that nobody is looking for. As flamers, they're the most likely ones to pull crazy feats of logical fallacy and outright lies in order to vent whatever angst is driving them.
Now stir in a nice whipped cap of the weird pseudo-Taoist Reality Bites/Friends type people (Wired readers) who believe that the internet is "empowering" and that information has some kind of mystic energy, inject this putrid newage mixture into the veinous growth of the internet and you've got your modern SJW (social junkie waif).
The other big difference from the 1980's is video. Video used to be expensive and very time consuming to put onto your computer, let alone to transmit to another computer. These days we can thank Youtube for making everyone believe their opinion is utterly fucking important just by virtue of the inflated egos and self-opinions of everybody else *around them*, all because pop culture says that if you have an image then you're important -- and now everybody's dog and baby has an image, shit even peoples' dead birds in their driveways have an image, now.
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Everyone is missing that its an election cycle in the US with a lot of vitriol between the left and right sides. It's why im not on FB much anymore.
Your view wasn't suppressed, people can still read it no matter how bigoted it is. You have absolutely every right to state your opinions, and people have absolutely every right to call you a moron for having them. The rating is what the majority of people think of your opinion.
Maybe if your had any evidence to support it apart from people are using social media less implies people are tired of not being racist because you say so, you may have been rated higher.
Your argument makes no sense what so ever, in the first post you say you want to ban other races from social media, then you say censorship is bad, but you want stop other races from making posts. Oh right you probably think other races aren't people. So you should have no problem with them thinking you aren't a person either, and it is OK to kill you. I guess logic isn't your strong suit is it.
In fact since you where modded down implies that most people on slashdot disagree with you, since slashdot moderation is a form voting.
I for one do not use social media, because it is a huge waste of time. If it actually exposed me to more foreign people and their opinions I might use it more.
Yes, the entire world has finals week at the same time.
People don't need a computer to turn into selfish assholes. Many of them successfully turn behind the wheel of a car. I suppose the glass makes them feel anonymous enough to unleash their true selves.
Man, you really need that seminar!
I never said all trump voters are racists: I said that all racists are Donald trump voters. Go read r/the_donald, /pol/ or any other trump outlet and you'll get a very clear picture of the pro-trump demographic. You don't see literal nazis backing Sanders or Clinton (with the exception of one particularly transparent false flag attempt); but you do see the klan and the nazis backing Trump.
I can only assume that some trump voters are good people, but the vast majority of them are outright, literal racists.
A protest vote matters when it's done in sufficient numbers to impact the outcome of the election. I view that as being a candidate who has a realistic chance of winning electoral votes. Ross Perot was the last candidate for which a protest vote could be effective. He also scared the hell out of the two major candidates, Bush and Clinton, enough so that they launched attacks to drive him out of the election. If there was a viable third party candidate, I would consider casting a vote in that direction. There isn't such a candidate in this election, unfortunately. A candidate who grabs 5% of the vote can certainly tip the balance of the election, but it won't be an effective protest vote. As I recall, Nader achieved that level of support once and tipped the election to Bush, but it didn't result in substantial change to either party. No one who has the ability to break away from their party and make a difference has the courage to do so. Plenty of politicians have spoken out to say that Americans deserve better but not a single one of them has the courage to actually go against their party. Not one. We desperately need another Ross Perot, but nobody has the courage to try. And no, Perot never won any states, but he had more than enough support to scare the fuck out of both parties. Gary Johnson won't do that. I don't want Trump elected because I view him as far more evil than Hillary, who is the only candidate with any chance to defeat Trump. Absent the ability to make a meaningful protest vote, a vote for Hillary is the best alternative. Plus it opens the door for a respectable Republican like Rand Paul to get the nomination in 2020.
Don't tempt him, sanctimonious bullshit is what SJWs do best.
Zuck was born a member of the ruling class. It's one of those things that seldom gets brought up. Most of the .com success stories come from guys and gals who had rich parents that had the connections needed to take an idea and turn it into a business. But gotta keep that myth of upward (and downward) mobility alive. The rich don't fall. Regular folk do. But not the rich. They take care of their own. That's why they invented golden parachutes and the like. Me? My parachutes full of holes and my safety net's barb wire.
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I only use my Facebook account for commenting on organization pages and communicating with a few people who don't use email, and I'm thinking of deleting my account and abandoning it completely.
Every few weeks, I get that flurry of anguished messages from my FB friends that means my page has been cloned again. My friends start getting ads and invitations for various kinds of scammery. There is a simple process for reporting clone pages to management, but a few weeks later, it happens again. Cloning seems to be the same unsolvable problem for Facebook as robocalls are for phone company. They are clueless on how to stop it from happening.
They're using the apps less, but are they just going to it in their web browsers instead?
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Down-modding stupid posts is not censorship. It's common sense. You can still post your GNAA nonsense any time you like but don't expect everyone to browse at -1. Most people aren't entertained by shit-posters.
Those people are so busy being stupid online that they clould hardly be called real Trump supporters. Real Trump supporters go out onto the real world to talk to other people, attend political rallies, and vote in primaries. Which are all things online forum freaks seldom do.
But stick to playing with stick figures in your cyberfantasy world. It keeps you out of the real world where you might have an effect.
Which are all things online forum freaks seldom do.
He said, on the forum online.
The lack of introspection and self-awareness I've seen displayed in these comments is sadly typical of trump voters, alt right freaks and rnjws in general.
Well, ggp dropped a clue, referring to false flag operations, but only accrediting that to elements around Clinton.
Pretty much ALL the nazis and clansmen at this point in the US are fringe lunatics with virtually no support from anybody outside their tiny subcultures. It isn't 1933 in Indiana anymore, the brownshirts and clansmen are just a nasty flavor of cosplayers who take themselves too seriously. Nobody else should, and few do.
Brought to you by GG and SJW. Social Media let the trolls call the shots and a bulk of their users left. Further increasing the dominance of trolling, so more users leave, wash rinse repeat. Who could have known?! Who is John Galt?
As I expected, Slashdot's community standards that you call moderation, which is a form of censorship by the masses, has relegated my post to -1. It's a shame that people have a hard time handling the truth and feel the need to try to punish people who speak it. When Facebook exhibits bias in their selection of trending stories, it's widely criticized as a form of censorship. Yet in the endless hypocrisy of Slashdot users, the use of moderation to suppress certain views isn't considered censorship. Neither is a first amendment issue but both are forms of censorship and deserve similar levels of criticism.
Why lookie there - your censored post in all it's glory. Who knew that we had magical powers to dig up things that were censored, therefore not able to be seen.
Your problem such as it is, that you demand agreement, and any time someone disagrees with you, your hurt feelings scream out "CENSORSHIP!"
The intersting part of that is that far right wing kooks, and flaming liberal Social Justice Warriers are identical in this respect. Both consider any disagreement as an affront to their freedom of speech.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I shared this news story on Facebook just to be ironic.
Your view wasn't suppressed, people can still read it no matter how bigoted it is. You have absolutely every right to state your opinions, and people have absolutely every right to call you a moron for having them.
They get much butt hurt when others don't agree with them. I haven't seen a post actually deleted from Slashdot since I've been here. So the only thing left is wailing about the mod level.
One of the interesting things about haveing the testicular fortitude to post as at least a pseudonym, is that aside from the free points, you can get email announcements of moderation actions. I always know I'm on to something when I get modded back and forth on some posts. Some times its like a little war zone.
But even if I get a few -1 trolls, they are there in all their glory, for anyone else to see. Which is not only not censorship, but the best moderation system around.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
People are just getting bored with it.
For sure. Don't forget folks, that little slide bar at the top of the Lepage, for when the AC's get a little too derpish.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I thought you were being parodic... But you really ARE a sanctimonious ass.
Yea but the interned carried the expectancy of being that fantastic tool that would spread freedom and knowledge but instead is been shown to be a great tool to highlight the huge amount number of idiots living in the world
Social Media is a form of depression... all I see is people comparing lives and getting jealous... you get these idiots pretending to have a good time on holidays and their friend get all upset - not realizing they are probably bored shirtless and wanting to come home.
On top of that, I find Zuckerberg to be extremely annoying and fake person.. he makes money like a leech... what a creep. Don't get me wrong - I like and respect people like Elon Musk, because they are honest and genuinely innovative. Elon is a real engineer.. Zuck is just a piece of snot.
it's when you fleece the really, really rich. See Bernie Madoff. If he'd just stuck to ripping off old ladies he'd have die a happy billionaire. And they still let his family keep most of the ill gotten gains. Anyway what happens to Theranos depends on how much she fleeced the billionaires. I don't think it was much, and the losses will probably just become tax write offs. The whole thing looked a little like Hollywood math. You know, kinda like how Jedi flopped at the office. Paper money. Nothing real lost, and probably a nice gain from the tax write offs.
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Well, the glass combined with the locking doors and movement of the vehicle.
Zero percent for me, that's been a constant, so they won't register any decline on my part.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Social media eventually flooded with advertisements, marketing gags, share or like this or you're a terrible person and stopped having content from people.
Lot of people are now very cautious at what they post because too many humans are not responsible enough to have that information or opinion without trying to twist it to fit their agenda.
So it dies.
Any computer expert in the whole world will tell you that he has a hard time seeing the point in "social media" "services" we see today and still constantly popping up left, right and center. MySpace, Twitter, Periscope, Meerkat, Facebook, ... etc. All of these are glorified proprietary online dependant versions of IRC, ICQ, Usenet, Fidonet and so forth and to me it's of no surprise that their utilisation is dimishing.
In recent years there was a lot of talk about building an open source facebook killer. All that would need is a redo of Email. If E-Mail weren't so bad and outdated, Facebook wouldn't stand a chance.
Same goes for messaging. Microblogging Twitter style is beyond pointless in my book. The stuff it tries to cover had already been done with RSS and faded into the background as Twitter came on to the market. I remember looking into Twitter back when it started, ditching it after 3 minutes and never using it again. It may have been neat as a conclusion of the "unified messaging" craze back in 2001, with the possiblity to relay messages over SMS for no costs - just as that was the only mass-relyable way to do mobile message broadcasting, but ever since I consider Twitter to be a silly joke and cannot believe how anybody can seriously percieve it as useful.
I do see the point in blogs and I see the point in zero-fuss encrypted cross-plattform messaging with a useful browser account access (Jabber, Web IRC) just as I see a point in communities like Slashdot. But those are things that very long since have been perfected, are as secure as it gets with todays protocols and cost next to nothing to set up and run without some megacorp watching your every move.
I personally hope that all these proprietary protocols for catpictures, foodporn, collective self-indulgeance, vanity and pretensciousness die if a fire as they get replaced by sophisticated FOSS alternatives and we all can finally get on with building a better society, fixing the environment or healing cancer or something.
My 2 cents.
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I heard that FB internally estimates that any given social service has 7 years of usable life. So they always look for the next thing that they could move their enormous horde of users to. So far the next thing seems to be group chat. I'm sure they'll come up with something â" there's way too much money riding on this
nobody cares what poor people do with their phones
I've been using it since the bbs days (early 80's) and works fine for me. The only real improvement that it has ever had was inline addition of content so you don't have to manually uuencode everything yourself. Other than that, vax mail was as close to perfect as you can get.
Sanctimonious bullshit is what the whackos who call people SJWs do best. Old chickenshit white guys who are terrified of change, inventing some bizarre cant with its own specialized nomenclature. Is SJW supposed to be so similar to saying "Jew"?
You don't see literal nazis backing Sanders or Clinton (with the exception of one particularly transparent false flag attempt); but you do see the klan and the nazis backing Trump. I can only assume that some trump voters are good people, but the vast majority of them are outright, literal racists.
Well, that sounds outright like an abuse of statistics and probabilistic reasoning. And I'm saying that as someone who thinks that Trump is a moron (that, or a brilliant troll).
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Those terms are subject to a lot of different interpretations, so of which I'm guessing you don't mean.
I'm not arguing against virtues per se, just that the terms you used are perhaps too vague for your intentions.
What if that person were some modern-day Pol Pot, or Hitler, or Stalin? Where ruining their reputation from behind a screen is the only obvious way to save many lives without risking yourself being tortured to death?
Or what if that person were a serial child molester, about whom the parents of his future would-be victims were ignorant?
(Note: I'm just testing the boundaries of your point; not how it applies to the more typical scenario.)
Is that you Donald? Really Mr Trump, you keep shooting yourself in the foot.
I haven't seen a post actually deleted from Slashdot since I've been here.
I've seen posts severed from their associated articles and the search feature.
I had a tab open watching one to see how the follow-up commenting would go. I then opened another tab to see how the general discussion was faring, and realized I could not find the one I was watching else-tab anywhere with any viewing threshold. I then searched for some of the terms used in that post and it did not show up in the search system.
So no, Slashdot doesn't delete posts, but it can "lose" them.
It takes a special type of person to attempt to disprove a stereotype by personifying said stereotype.
I for one do not use social media, because it is a huge waste of time.
He said on /. ;-)
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money
It's a statistical rule, not an absolute. Individual examples are useless, it's all in the numbers.
Second, even if there was a 100% turnover in the circle of billionaires, what would that change? Nothing! It would still be just es exclusive and heavily luck-based.
"All vs. Any": *Anyone* can become a millionaire in the lottery, but what does that doe for *everyone*?
...and how exactly are they monitoring the apps' usage?
Wrong. The pro-white racists flock to Trump, while the anti-white racists flock to the other two.
I'm spending less time on social media and more time watching re-runs of the Jerry Springer Show. It's much more entertaining. Facebook is just a network whereas Jerry Springer gets real people from real communities to soil themselves in public.
This is common communist-cocialist talk about blowing some peoples heads.
You probably salivate about the NKVD death squads? Or want to work for pol-poth or comrade mao, so you can kill people who do not think like you?
Trump does not talk about killing his opponents. No the killing talk is done by clinton and sanders backers.
Sorry I meant social media in which people tell me what, they have done today, and post pictures of cats, or themselves.
Like the ones referred to in the article e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook. Although slashdot is social media, to me it is different in the fact it is a "news" on which you comment, as opposed to "news" coming from individuals.
Wikipedia is also technically social media, and I use that too, but it is worlds apart from Facebook.
The SJW definition of change is eliminating all the white people / CIS people / males or subjecting them to racist policies intended to punish them for being the source of the world's problems. The neo-nazi definition of change is eliminating all the Jews / African-Americans / Hispanics or subjecting them to racist policies intended to punish them for being the source of the world's problems.
Both groups are racists and are rightly being fought by reasonable people interested in a society where equality of treatment and opportunity is the end goal. The difference is the SJWs have weaseled their way into the fabric of pop culture. The SJW movement can withstand more criticism than the neo-nazis, therefore a larger negative backlash is occurring, and might even get a person like Donald Trump elected president.
Good job, social justice, you deserve everything that happens to you.
They don't spend time on social media they consume and create it.
They do however spend time on social networks or any network in general where the content (which is somehow now called social media) is.
People are not loosing interest in social media (do not capialize, it's not a name or title) but they may loose interest in a particular service such as a social network.
People will always be curious and so media or any form of content will be popular. Do not confuse social media with social networks!
Also the world wide web expands further than America you know, the rest of the world does not care for this Donald Trump who you prematurely call president.
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? - jwz Facebook is still one of the best ways to follow-up/meet/stalk people to get some.
Not at all. I thought I saw an opening to be funny and went for it. ;-)
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money
People tend to overlook the fact that democracy is the exact opposite of individual rights. The Founding Fathers (USA) tried to implement a _representative_ democarcy to avoid the massive probems of lynch mob mentality (aka Social Justice). The internet, since usenet, has increased the size of the mobs and the directness of communications.
And the much-feared anonymity is not really causing the problem. Example: facebook.