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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.
Hmmm... more like burned by time wasted, and annoyed by the implicit social requirements.
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
I'm sure most of us will live to see Facebook be the next myspace. By that time we'll all be onto something else.
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Burned by the realization that online social is just as bad as f2f social, with the danger of physical violence replaced by being ruined totally and permanently forever.
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.
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.
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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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.
It was actually more interesting when it was random narcissistic comments about the minutiae of people's lives.
Facebook made it too easy to share and reshare clickbait and ideological crap. People stopped being even remotely clever and turned it into a recycle bin of garbage data.