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by ajsnigrutin 26 days ago
Sure, i might want to follow an influencer or two and look at their videos, but I want my "feed" to be "social", so people i choose to follow, be it real life friends, or even influencers, but not "random" content from sources I don't follow.

I have a lot of friends who have moved abroad, changed jobs, had kids, etc., and social networks gave me all that info, plus I could contact them in a "lighter" way than taking the phone and calling them, plus you could make groups of people (classmates, coworkers from previous job, etc.). There were also a lot of "we're at <local bar>, if anyone wants to join us" posts back in the time, and since i lived 5 minutes away, I joined or even posted that status if I was one of the first people there, and other came... now it's hours of coordination just to meet for a beer.

Basically, it was easier to reach people who are "not that close" to you that you would directly call them, and you find out stuff (who moved where, who has a kid now, etc.). Now I don't know any of that, but I get served a fake video of someone inserting a battery into the antenna connector of a tv.

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From my personal point of view (because this is subjective of course) but like there was never any point of caring about any of those people to me. It just wasn't a good enough use of my time and the algorithims are literally desinged to make me addicted and suck away my attention. I couldn't care less if Ben who i met at work 10 years ago and havent spoken to in over 7 is having a kid or moved to Spain or whatever. I made a consious choice to step away from that and really care what I was doing with my attention which again imo has lead to better results and not a lot of social degradation (i dont think my irl social life would be different if i was on social media)