Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.
Shuunnnnnnn
Shunnnnnn… shun the non believers charlie
Shunnnnnnnununnnnnnn
takes ur freakin kidneys
let all social media die in flames.
its nothing but a cancer on society and counts among the worst ills to befall mankind.
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
Fountain pen user here, and same, I’m in, I browse, I’m out.
Dodging aunt Mabel’s anti vax bullshit like the matrix
Reddit for me: I haven’t yet gotten rid of my account, mostly because r/ukraine requires an account to browse (on phone), but since fuck spez, I refuse to contribute. Obligatory Fuck spez.
By 2025 it will all be chatbots posting disinformation for the enjoyment of other bots, while advertising bots pay for it.
This is dark and funny at the same time. Bots, shouting into the void, in order to separate suckers from their advertising dollars.
So one AI is hitting on another AI? This is art. I will watch that YouTube channel.
I don’t understand what social media has to offer me anymore.
social media had nothing to offer except attention and undeserved validation.
That’s probably because you don’t have any deplorable personality traits which can only be validated by other assholes on the Internet.
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 wish I could retroactively go back and never use Facebook. That site ruined my life for several years
“Over 50 per cent of heroin addicts will stop using by 2025 as negative, obvious consequences grow”
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 salt 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.
I’m probably leaving for the fact it’s just ads.
Actual paid for ads, sponsorship ads, giveaway ads to grow, influencer ads, comment ads to grow their reach.
It’s just one big advertisement.
Always has been
What’s up with that graphic showing google+? What is this, 2019?
Probably just a reused template image they keep in reserve.
One day it’ll have Mastodon and Lemmy and such. Maybe by 2030.
Linux in 2024, Fediverse and Bluesky in 2025.
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.
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Already there since more than a few years
Those are rookie numbers.
Gotta pump those numbers up!
