After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like we’ve decided to share less. New polling shows that nearly a third of all social media users post less than they did a year ago. That trend is especially true for adults in Gen Z.
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4MNdCAnWA
I basically forced my wife to install FB Purity (a content sanitizing extension for Facebook) because most of what she was seeing on her feed were ads or pages she doesn’t even follow.
I left Facebook years ago because I would rather be a person than a performer and I only really have like 10 close friends. Most know my phone number and email address, otherwise they can message me at the LinkedIn profile I monitor but don’t use.
how do you keep up with local/town newd, club information and activities? all of mine post exclusively on the fb groups and since i deleted my account i’m out of the loop on everything lol.
There’s a local bookstore lady that will literally not let us leave without telling us everything happening in town for the next month. Find your gossipy bookstore person. :)
See if you can find a Discord or three. Still a walled garden; it Zucks less. Takes some actual networking, but I’m enjoying local communities having been off Facebook for over a decade.
i tried this approach but those channels died. discord rarely works long-term from what i’ve seen. you see the activity and if its far too long since someone engaged with the channel then its dead basically - and you have to start a new server; but forget getting non-gamers to put in the effort of joining a new server.
Discord servers come and go. People have lives that change over the years. Also, there’s the definite issue of hesitation to post on a server that last saw a message a month ago, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The Beehaw Discord can go days without a post (in fairness, I can’t speak to the #gaming channel, as I have it muted). My college roommate’s ostensible gaming server is the same way. Ditto for the local server I’m in.
Discord – at least the way I’ve used it – is generally for low-volume, low-importance communication with people you know at least parasocially. It’s a completely different beast from the firehoses of social media companies, and I prefer it that way. Also, while it’s far from “secure,” conversations aren’t indexed by Google, providing a certain level of privacy.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to fetch my pipe and slippers, head out to the rocking chair and yell at a cloud.
Mostly through my wife who still has Facebook, but I also talk to people (in person) and read the news.
I love being out of the loop.
as an example, i’m an aquarist who focus on developing specific traits - being out of the loop basically means no access to shows, international exchange meetings, local swaps, events and would also set me back 10-20 years on potential development by trying to reinvent the wheel or even likely to fail in such attempts as well as an inability to acquire quality stock to revitalize genes in housed populations.
being out of the loop in this context is equivalent of quitting because its just impossible to do without facebook because these assholes all decided to move their social activity there.
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