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[Billdo]

I still don't understand why facebook was better then myspace.

I distinctly remember telling me then girlfriend "why would I want to join Facebook? I already have MySpace."

 

[Rhodes 81]

I do miss those halcyon days when the internet was more segmented and individual communities could vet who gets a microphone a little bit more. Even ignoring the serious political and therefore social and economic implications of the twitter bot bonanza artificially amplifying shitty, misleading, and often demonstrably wrong/illegal opinions, it also just makes any sort of communities on there significantly worse that they're able to be so easily disrupted by bad actors. At least back when it was all message boards you could expect that a well-moderated environment would chase those types away quickly.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

The only complaint I have about Twitter is that now I see tweets from people I don't follow and have to manually "see less" or whatever but I don't see a lot of the crap ppl have been complaining about on it. I'm done joining social media though, haven't done Snap, haven't dont Tik Tok, once FB, IG, and Twitter are dead I'll be done.

My issue is that basically every top reply is either the dumbest blue check on earth or some only fans bot. And if I look at my “for you” feed I will see someone being murdered or some insane racist shit bag without fail. The app stunk before and has went way downhill.

 

[OmNomNom]

Because Facebook bought the Friendster social media patents for about $40 million! Friendster was the key!

My real guess? MySpace was actually too customizable and it turns out most people prefer simple and consistent interfaces; even if they’re objectively less interesting and powerful.

i learned so much basic html bc of my myspace

 

[Billdo]

My issue is that basically every top reply is either the dumbest blue check on earth or some only fans bot. And if I look at my “for you” feed I will see someone being murdered or some insane racist shit bag without fail. The app stunk before and has went way downhill.

My for you page doesn't that stuff. Maybe I'm lucky or I just don't venture off of the whole I follow section too much. Idk I think Twitter, in my experience, is very much the same as it has been. I also don't take social media super seriously so maybe that helps.

 

[None Shall Pass]

Facebook also killed off Myspace because, at first, it was college only. And you were limited to people in your college. So it was nothing but wholesale adoption by 18-22 year olds who really really wanted to use it. That made it cool, and people who weren't there wanted to be.

Then they opened it up to everybody, yadda yadda yadda, your uncle uses it to post racist Minions memes,

 

[None Shall Pass]

My issue is that basically every top reply is either the dumbest blue check on earth or some only fans bot. And if I look at my “for you” feed I will see someone being murdered or some insane racist shit bag without fail. The app stunk before and has went way downhill.

What, you don't love some socially-incompetent bozo posting three laugh-crying emojis and saying "le epic meme, good sir" every time Elon posts a meme from 2014?

 

[Guttersniped]

My for you page doesn't that stuff. Maybe I'm lucky or I just don't venture off of the whole I follow section too much. Idk I think Twitter, in my experience, is very much the same as it has been. I also don't take social media super seriously so maybe that helps.

I’ve scrupulously curated my “For You” follows, so it’s still entertaining, but when I venture into wilderness, for a search for example, it’s bracing to see how much the $8 blue checks have turned Twitter into a stomach-churning idiot cesspool.

The vast majority of them are the worst posters on Twitter and they pay to have their posts amplified, so the worst shit is amplified.

The “business model” is so f***ing stupid, it making the site demonstrably worse, but Musk chased away most legit advertisers so please give him $8 everybody. (The bottom feeder advertisers that are left are such trash, it hilariously embarrassing.)

 

[Patrik26]

I consider myself fortunate that I don't have any worries and complaints about any of the social media platforms 'cause I don't use them. Well, other than here.

 

[My3Sons]

Facebook also killed off Myspace because, at first, it was college only. And you were limited to people in your college. So it was nothing but wholesale adoption by 18-22 year olds who really really wanted to use it. That made it cool, and people who weren't there wanted to be.

Then they opened it up to everybody, yadda yadda yadda, your uncle uses it to post racist Minions memes,

Don't forget about the vast repository of case controlled double blind peer reviewed medical studies with high confidence intervals.

 

[Bleedred]

I don't do the social media ''Friend/followers'' sites. This forum is my social media outlet.

I have no interest in having facebook and being ''Friends'' with a bunch of assholes that couldn't stand me in high school, but who now pretend to like me and be ''Friends'' with me 30 years later.

The worst is when someone dies and someone who was barely acquainted with the deceased person or who just hung out with them once or twice do a ''Tribute'' post and talk about how much they meant to them and how much they'll miss them. Meanwhile, in most of these situations these people hadn't even spoken in decades.

I guess that's why they call it FAKEbook?

 

[JK3]

I have no idea what anything in this thread means or the point lol.

It’s like me trying to figure out celebrity gossip. “Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt”.

 

[NJDevs26]

I have no idea what anything in this thread means or the point lol.

It’s like me trying to figure out celebrity gossip. “Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt”.

OLD MAN ALERT

 

[My3Sons]

OLD MAN ALERT

We need to ban all the out of touch barely coherent old timers that post here. Those squares are so yesterday daddio. Not like me, I'm hep to the jive.

 

[Alex NJD]

Facebook has tried to copy/emulate Snapchat, YouTube/Twitch, and TikTok. Pretty much all of them didn't catch on. At least I don't know anyone who uses the Facebook versions of these. (vast majority of the people I know are 21-27, maybe these alternatives are popular in other age groups?) I'm sure the same thing will happen with Threads.

 

[njdevils1982]

I consider myself fortunate that I don't have any worries and complaints about any of the social media platforms 'cause I don't use them. Well, other than here.

 

[njdevils1982]

I don't do the social media ''Friend/followers'' sites. This forum is my social media outlet.

I have no interest in having facebook and being ''Friends'' with a bunch of assholes that couldn't stand me in high school, but who now pretend to like me and be ''Friends'' with me 30 years later.

The worst is when someone dies and someone who was barely acquainted with the deceased person or who just hung out with them once or twice do a ''Tribute'' post and talk about how much they meant to them and how much they'll miss them. Meanwhile, in most of these situations these people hadn't even spoken in decades.

I guess that's why they call it FAKEbook?

the great about not being on facebook (or whatever platform) is that i'm impossible to find on the internet

....

it's also this

Fakebook - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KovalchukFistPump]

I do miss those halcyon days when the internet was more segmented and individual communities could vet who gets a microphone a little bit more. Even ignoring the serious political and therefore social and economic implications of the twitter bot bonanza artificially amplifying shitty, misleading, and often demonstrably wrong/illegal opinions, it also just makes any sort of communities on there significantly worse that they're able to be so easily disrupted by bad actors. At least back when it was all message boards you could expect that a well-moderated environment would chase those types away quickly.

Well I do like that there's more of an open gate to become a contributing member. There used to be the 90/9/1 rule where 90% of forum users just lurk, 9% contribute, and 1% are the main members. Like when I used to be a teenager in 2003 there was a bit of an intimidation factor trying to best on NJDevs compared to all these people with the avatars, high post counts, fancy signatures, etc.

That has sort of gone away with recent years.....since you can start talking about whatever on Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit at any point. This board is a bit of a throwback to the old setup though.

Facebook has tried to copy/emulate Snapchat, YouTube/Twitch, and TikTok. Pretty much all of them didn't catch on. At least I don't know anyone who uses the Facebook versions of these. (vast majority of the people I know are 21-27, maybe these alternatives are popular in other age groups?) I'm sure the same thing will happen with Threads.

I've seen Facebook stories being used by certain sets of people who don't use Instagram at all. My entire social circle barely uses Snapchat, but I understand it's popular in some places. Also Facebook has had videos for awhile, it hasn't completely replaced YouTube but it's a bit of a competitor to it.

Facebook's main problem is that it has become "uncool" to be on it and, in my opinion, it's gotten a slightly more boomery and or 'dumber' user base where I just don't feel like the people I want to share things with are on it, so I don't post.

 

[Devilsfan992]

Well I do like that there's more of an open gate to become a contributing member. There used to be the 90/9/1 rule where 90% of forum users just lurk, 9% contribute, and 1% are the main members. Like when I used to be a teenager in 2003 there was a bit of an intimidation factor trying to best on NJDevs compared to all these people with the avatars, high post counts, fancy signatures, etc.

That has sort of gone away with recent years.....since you can start talking about whatever on Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit at any point. This board is a bit of a throwback to the old setup though.


I've seen Facebook stories being used by certain sets of people who don't use Instagram at all. My entire social circle barely uses Snapchat, but I understand it's popular in some places. Also Facebook has had videos for awhile, it hasn't completely replaced YouTube but it's a bit of a competitor to it.

Facebook's main problem is that it has become "uncool" to be on it and, in my opinion, it's gotten a slightly more boomery and or 'dumber' user base where I just don't feel like the people I want to share things with are on it, so I don't post.

Exact opposite here. I see many Instagram stories, but not many Facebook stories. I think that's because younger people, don't want there parents and their friends seeing these stories on their Facebook. Also, I tend to be friends with a lot more random people on Facebook then Instagram.

For Snapchat, this is where my friends and I use the most for group chats. It also where I have the most concentrated followers/following which are good friends of mine, so it tends to feel a bit more of an anything goes social media platform.

Now on Twitter, I hardly know anyone who still regularly posts. Now I just follow Sports people and read the dumb comments. Back in the day, it was the Wild Wild West. Good times.

 

[glenwo2]

I do miss those halcyon days when the internet was more segmented and individual communities could vet who gets a microphone a little bit more. Even ignoring the serious political and therefore social and economic implications of the twitter bot bonanza artificially amplifying shitty, misleading, and often demonstrably wrong/illegal opinions, it also just makes any sort of communities on there significantly worse that they're able to be so easily disrupted by bad actors. At least back when it was all message boards you could expect that a well-moderated environment would chase those types away quickly.

I've seen plenty of wrong ones, for sure.

(although you have to admit that one's wrong opinion is often-times another's right opinion).

There is hardly ever a 100% consensus on anything on Twitter.

 

[My3Sons]

Broad platform social media is not a good thing in my view. Giving the average person access to potentially millions of followers is a recipe for the ills it has created. Conspiracies healing cancer with water and weird extremist political stuff that is obvious BS but people believe etc.

Someone once repeated a saying to me that has some validity. Think about how ignorant the average person is. Then remember that half are even worse.

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

I just want a non political/geo political sports app for Hockey, Football and fantasy football.

 

[Darkauron]

Good. Flag the assholes that have spread misinformation and are ruining our country. I have no problem with them doing that. They reap what they sow

 

[Setec Astronomy]

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I just want a non political/geo political sports app for Hockey, Football and fantasy football.

The politics in whatever app you want to use for sports comes from the other users you interact with, not whoever owns it.

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

one of my favs....