Why social media became an unlikable place ?

No hate to anyone, but imo, social media has lost the original meaning for which it was founded. It was created for communicating with people, but many have become completely absorbed in it and forgotten how to live and talk in reality. There is so much to learn from these platforms beyond mere amusement, but they have become solely about entertainment. There is no respect for anyone with the anonymity it had. While it has its own pros and cons, I feel it’s declining, and companies don’t seem to care about this issue until they stop making profits.

AgentGrimstone,

There’s a lot more garbage to sift through

Zak,
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It’s enshittification.

Facebook used to be a pretty good way to stay vaguely in touch with people you know. You can only really know a few hundred people, most of whom didn’t constantly post on Facebook even when that was a good experience, so Facebook had a limit on the amount of interesting content people would find there. People won’t stay on the site and look at ads if it runs out of content, so they had to start sourcing it from elsewhere to satiate those few users who just can’t get enough.

The problem is for people who can get enough, things their actual friends and family share get lost in the noise. Over time, most people shared less there because the sort of life updates that are only interesting to one’s friends weren’t actually reaching those friends. Now it’s mostly professionally generated content.

I’m talking more about Facebook here than other things that might be classed as social media because it was originally more explicitly designed for interactions with one’s actual real-life social group. Things designed more for publishing to the entire world (Twitter, Mastodon) and topic-centered forum-like things (Reddit, Lemmy) haven’t changed as much.

capcool,
@capcool@lemmy.world avatar

This is what I wanted to hear about. The social media lost their purpose of what they’re created for. Its no more to connect with the people, just a place to get away from the people and lost ourselves without knowing. I knew about the enshittification, which made to post this. I liked reddit a lot, but now lemmy is way much better than it, because it doesn’t have the urge to make karma, to make some numbers and no posts on every seconds. Recently they introduced the streak concept, which made me to find an alternative. Reddit soon to be ended not only by the company, but also by the users. From what I experienced a long time ago was a helping and supportive community, now its just a bully mentality to showoff their intellectual on others.

Rhynoplaz,

Social media would be great if it weren’t for all the people on it. They ruin everything.

beefbaby182,
@beefbaby182@lemmy.world avatar

This job would be great if it weren’t for all the fucking customers…

morphballganon,

There’s a push from fascists and fascism-enablers to turn the insecure into insufferable assholes. This confuses the general public on social issues and makes people more likely to vote out of hatred/spite (which helps fascists) instead of voting out of respect/concern (which would help progressives). The worsening of communal spaces is the inevitable byproduct of this.

Bluetreefrog,

Isn’t that we are trying to create here with the fediverse? Social media that the users want, not what large corporations.

tygerprints,

One thing you have to give it credit for, social media has really shown us what people are truly like beneath the veneer of social-ness. It's kind of provided a shield so people feel Ok with using bigotry and hate and calling other people names - sometimes just for expressing an opinion that is different from their own. Which is quite a small, immature way to behave.

However I really don't think social media is the big baddy everyone is making it out to be. In Utah, they're passing laws all over the place to restrict who can use social media - nobody under the age of 16 here is allowed to. And they keep saying "predators are lurking there and waiting to infect your kids!" Well - that may sometimes be true, but it isn't the experience that the vast majority of kids have with it.

In fact from what I've seen, it's idiot kids making dumb mistakes that get them into trouble, not the social media's site that is urging them to make those mistakes. Sorry but I'm not going to jump on the "social media is a monster" band wagon. It doesn't have to be a bad place - it takes some common sense but it can be a useful and educating experience.

Lath,

Reality sucks. Simple as that. So obviously we need to make everything else like it.

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