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[Business Insider] Facebook's and Instagram's new revamping could mean end of "traditional social network era"
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i want it back too. maybe not run by google, but i want circles sooo badly these days. i dont want to make multiple accounts for my different dumb interests, and i dont want to subject the people that follow me to all my dumb interests, or be subjected to somebody elses different dumb interests just because i follow them lol
Pivotting instagram to compete wirh TikTok I get. I hate it, and they're bad at it, but I can see why they'd try. But I feel like the tiktokification of social media is primarily driven by young people, and anecdotally at least facebook seems dominated by boomers, and millenials who drop by infrequently to check with friends/family. They're never going to grab the youth again with facebook, the name is way too tainted and lame, and moving away from social connection seems like it'll alienate the people who still use it.
I've been wanting to delete Instagram this year anyway. Took me ten years to reach 1k followers, aka I've always been a social media flop 🤣 think I'm good without it
Crazy that almost 20 years ago you've required a university email address and things were more streamlined.
Video apps are way more isolating, and require more of your attention compared to a passive app like how Instagram used to be. I would never idly check a video app while out and about, like I would something quiet and static like Twitter or Instagram.
I feel like the novelty of social media, keeping in touch with friends/family over the internet, was basically destroyed during covid when everyone was basically forced to use Zoom and other videoconferencing tools. Most of my friends and family have moved to either using Zoom or Discord to keep in touch. Now, I don't have to deal with toxicity from strangers, just toxicity within my own social circle.
This really sucks for photographers and artists. It doesn't impact my usage because I stopped using those apps 6 years ago. And now I don't even use Twitter so my only 'social media' is Era, Discord, and like 3 subreddits.
I wish the government would break up Meta, IG needs to be its own thing again.
Only a matter of time before corporate interests completely dilute what's fun and interesting about Tik Tok.
Only a matter of time before corporate interests completely dilute what's fun and interesting about Tik Tok.
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IG's been dead for awhile now.
I'm super curious what small businesses like mine will transition to...
Places like [og] IG and Tumblr were awesome because it was just the content you followed / wanted or friends reposted, which was ideal for finding customers because it was DESIRED follows on both ends of the equation.
IG just shows me stuff I don't want to see, and nearly nothing I do.
And subsequently, as a small fashion retailer, none of my thousands of followers see or interact with my content anymore.
And no, I don't have the money to push ads, and that would just be contributing to what makes the platform shite now anyway...
Ugh.
We need something new that does what we actually want from that type of social network.
Let TikTok be TikTok, stop trying to be the everything platform!
I'm super curious what small businesses like mine will transition to...
Places like [og] IG and Tumblr were awesome because it was just the content you followed / wanted or friends reposted, which was ideal for finding customers because it was DESIRED follows on both ends of the equation.
IG just shows me stuff I don't want to see, and nearly nothing I do.
And subsequently, as a small fashion retailer, none of my thousands of followers see or interact with my content anymore.
And no, I don't have the money to push ads, and that would just be contributing to what makes the platform shite now anyway...
Ugh.
We need something new that does what we actually want from that type of social network.
Let TikTok be TikTok, stop trying to be the everything platform!
They used to be able to buy their way out of things, now they can't.
Precisely.
They're sabotaging what their actual userbase wants by actively chasing a userbase that doesn't use Facebook or Instagram for these new "things" they're forcing down our throats.
It's self-destructive and it's infuriating to experience it happening.
I liked Instagram, because it were just pictures from users I followed.
Started the app minutes ago and all I got were tikto, I mean reels nonstop. Almost every person I followed seemingly piveted to clips. Even artists now do timelapse videos.
Reddit also gets worse and worse with recommendations, and ads on the feed.
Started the app minutes ago and all I got were tikto, I mean reels nonstop. Almost every person I followed seemingly piveted to clips. Even artists now do timelapse videos.
Reddit also gets worse and worse with recommendations, and ads on the feed.
Being known as the #1 social network for Boomers hasn't done Facebook any favors over the last 5 years when it comes to luring in new, younger users. They're super desperate to shake that image (good luck). I have a number of Gen Z co-workers in their early 20s and not a single one of them has a Facebook page. In fact the idea of using Facebook actively repulses them specifically because their parents use it. They're all 100% in on TikTok.
Yeah, as an artist myself it sucks that in order for your work to get noticed these days you can't just post the finished piece. You now have to post a complete time-lapse video of you creating the entire thing in order to get any sort of engagement whatsoever.
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You can post a "late". Not a problem at all. You simply won't see what others post until you post your pic. And the next day, everything is gone anyway.
The rising popularity of videos (Reels, etc.) over static assets has given me my first genuine "No, it's the children who are wrong"-moment.
Doesn't creating video content require significantly more resources than taking and editing a single image and would therefore make brands and content creators less likely to use them?
Addtionaly, as the attention span of people tends to get shorter and shorter, wouldn't video content also be less likely to grab their attention, as it takes more time to convey the message? Personally, I almost always skip video content on social media as often as I can, bc I feel like it's wasting my time.
Seems like I'm really getting old now lol
Still, video content seems to be the current "thing" for social media platforms, and the biggest losers from this shift are smaller creators and businesses who are not able to put in the needed ressources in order to be seen by potential customers. Ironic, since it's them that actually made e.g. Instagram what it has become today.
Doesn't creating video content require significantly more resources than taking and editing a single image and would therefore make brands and content creators less likely to use them?
Addtionaly, as the attention span of people tends to get shorter and shorter, wouldn't video content also be less likely to grab their attention, as it takes more time to convey the message? Personally, I almost always skip video content on social media as often as I can, bc I feel like it's wasting my time.
Seems like I'm really getting old now lol
Still, video content seems to be the current "thing" for social media platforms, and the biggest losers from this shift are smaller creators and businesses who are not able to put in the needed ressources in order to be seen by potential customers. Ironic, since it's them that actually made e.g. Instagram what it has become today.
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Many just copy their TikToks to youtube shorts and Insta reels. So no actual additional work.
This is not great, the ratio of ads & recommended content ads to actual people I know posting on these platforms gets worse by the day. It will be interesting to see where my friends and I end up, we might have to start our own discord server or something.
Meta, please dont buy the platform I inevitably migrate to.
Meta, please dont buy the platform I inevitably migrate to.
Youtube is trying the same thing with this "Shorts" bullshit. It's the stupidest thing.
This is what I see on a 27" monitor. Empty space and a vertical fucking video. It's infuriating.
It's terrible and it behaves like a completely separate component. In the event I did want to watch a short, I can't add it to a Watch Later playlist. Stupid. So, so stupid.
Didn't realize how disruptive TikTok was until this and Instagram's shit appeared.
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The weird thing is, you CAN actually watch a short in the normal player, by changing the URL format to that of a normal YouTube video
I left Facebook and IG.
Tik tok is really out here running shit. I only have twitter which seems to be alright.
Tik tok is really out here running shit. I only have twitter which seems to be alright.
I absolutely see why they're going this way. It's the price you pay for not having governments run these sites.
They can't "tax" you. (And we're already seeing people in the TV streaming space get sick of being "taxed" that way) So they have to fund the operation some how VC money expects returns.
It absolutely does suck though
They can't "tax" you. (And we're already seeing people in the TV streaming space get sick of being "taxed" that way) So they have to fund the operation some how VC money expects returns.
It absolutely does suck though