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by rconti
2820 days ago
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This comment seems to be all about your network. Just because your network on IG is different from your network on FB doesn't mean that the platform is fundamentally different. I'm ~15 years older than you, and was in college when FB came out. Hence, almost all of my friend are on FB. On FB, I regularly see photo albums and status updates. I enjoy IG, but I see just as many obnoxious posts with 20 lines of . . . . . . . so a boring post can contain 30 lines before 500 hashtags you don't care about and will never click on. And I will never want to watch a video on FB or on IG, so the platform doesn't matter. If anything, it sounds like a more common usage of IG is to follow "influencers" which is code for "people you don't care about". Again, garbage in, garbage out. It sounds like you've followed crappy people on FB, and that colors your view of the platform. The same way I've never been able to make Twitter work for me. It's not always about the platform. |
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I don't disagree with you as much as you think. That's my point, no one in my extended circles of friends actively uses Facebook. I only follow a couple pages but my feed is 90% recommendations from "Pages I might like" and the rest are likes or comments on content my friends follow.
Yes, you could say "you have the wrong friends" but I will counter that "maybe" they consciously made the decision to optimize for engagement and that the feed curation reflects that: over-exposing third-party content over the one produced by your social network.
And maybe we are using two different websites, it's not impossible that Facebook would turn into a different product depending on your age and location.
I suspect you might be in the opposite situation wrt. Instagram. I have never seen a single post from "influencers" since I don't follow any, that is to say beside the promoted content that is being shoved down my throat since a few months.
>like a more common usage of IG is to follow "influencers"
The bulk of the usage around me seem to be Instagram stories. People still post photos but now the trend is to put them+videos in your story, sometimes along with polls, weird filters, or Q&A (you have a little box to reply). It's actually pretty fun to use!