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Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

JOSweetHeart — Sat, 2 Jun 2018 21:56:58 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 06/03/2018 01:56

^^^ That is how I am. I don't do Instagram or Snap Chat.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

YoungPunk — Sat, 2 Jun 2018 18:40:01 GMT

Author: YoungPunk

Posted: 06/02/2018 22:40

Puncture Repair wrote:

Facebook's demographic is definitely aging, I swear it's also becoming more popular with baby boomers while most people under 30 hardly use it beyond messenger and liking memes.

Instagram is where the kids are.

I heard Snapchat is coming to the end of its prime, but that's just what I've heard since I never got into it.

btw Generation Z is one name for the generation after Millennials, but it's pretty loose, just a rush since generation labels are the hot thing to use at the moment.

Thanks for the clarification. I don't even know what generation I am. Definitely not tech savvy enough to be a Millenial for sure...

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

JOSweetHeart — Tue, 29 May 2018 22:08:22 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 05/30/2018 02:08

YoungPunk wrote:

Started using twitter... Don't really know what I'm doing, Is it at all like facebook cause I hate that...?

To me, its a lot simpler. What I do there is write to my favorite celebrities, whatever it is that I want to tell them.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. And if you are patient and consistent enough, you might just get a reply. So far, I have gotten plenty! 😄 😄 😄

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Anonymous — Tue, 29 May 2018 04:09:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/29/2018 08:09

Facebook's demographic is definitely aging, I swear it's also becoming more popular with baby boomers while most people under 30 hardly use it beyond messenger and liking memes.

Instagram is where the kids are.

I heard Snapchat is coming to the end of its prime, but that's just what I've heard since I never got into it.

btw Generation Z is one name for the generation after Millennials, but it's pretty loose, just a rush since generation labels are the hot thing to use at the moment.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

badseed — Mon, 28 May 2018 17:48:32 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/28/2018 21:48

YoungPunk wrote:

I heard that the generation after millenials (what are middle and high schoolers called? Millenials get all the attention!) don't even use facebook.

I would hope not. Be kinda embarrassing for kids to see how we all act on there.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

YoungPunk — Mon, 28 May 2018 16:59:57 GMT

Author: YoungPunk

Posted: 05/28/2018 20:59

I heard that the generation after millenials (what are middle and high schoolers called? Millenials get all the attention!) don't even use facebook.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Anonymous — Sun, 27 May 2018 17:18:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/27/2018 21:18

YoungPunk wrote:

Great, so its not like the shitshow facebook. I think I can work with that...

There's absolutely shitshows on both, just on Facebook it's probably coming from your uncle.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

YoungPunk — Sun, 27 May 2018 17:14:34 GMT

Author: YoungPunk

Posted: 05/27/2018 21:14

Puncture Repair wrote:

Very different beast, which is largely why they're able to exist together. I've started using twitter for branding and promoting my work since I left Facebook early this year, and it's been a great way of connect to people who do similar work to me. I'd say with twitter, if you plan on using it actively, you need a goal. You need to ask 'what am I trying to get out of this'. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. Everyone I know who uses it to connect with friends and see what they're up to have always ended up abandoning it, because I don't think it's a tool for that - that's what Facebook is for.

It's pretty fascinating. I've been talking with some friends who are all aware of the prospect of having kids and what their relationship with technology will be. Dopamine is a real addiction, and social media notifications are a really cheap way to get a rush, and kids love that shit like nothing else. 'Likes' mean almost literally nothing, they accomplish nothing and prove very little, and yet we often obsess over them, weighing our success in on them.

I'm lucky in that I've never really had an addictive personality, or a 'rich' enough social life that relies on social media to function, so I've been able to move away from it pretty easily. It's great that you've had this realization, and recognizing it could be a problem. I think everyone could benefit from just changing a few notification settings, or unplugging between certain hours of the day.

Great, so its not like the shitshow facebook. I think I can work with that...

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

badseed — Sun, 27 May 2018 17:10:42 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 05/27/2018 21:10

Ok, regarding social media...

What in the hell is this new thing on Facebook? It just came out of the blue sometime in the last week or so. People are sharing these posts where, instead of everything being in one picture, it's two pictures, one on top of the other. Sometimes it's a connecting image, or other times it's one of those quotes (I've never been a fan of the pictures of words though I guess people are more likely to read it than if you typed it). Almost always the top image is a video while the bottom is a regular picture (speaking of pictures of words, those come in video form now too for some reason even though it's still just a single image - WTF). Incidentally I was having my first acid trip in years the other day when I first saw one so needless to say it really tripped me out. Sober I look at it and just don't understand.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Anonymous — Sat, 26 May 2018 09:30:25 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/26/2018 13:30

YoungPunk wrote:

Started using twitter... Don't really know what I'm doing, Is it at all like facebook cause I hate that...?

Antonio-Pedro wrote:

I actually conducted a "Fear of missing out" class on the Medical Education committee this week and actually found pretty interesting how many people were feeling kinda anxious and apprehensive for being exposed way too much without any kind of social media. I've been getting some fomo lately, mainly because I am really dependent of new info being posted all the time on the net, so every more and then I've been feeling addicted to social media, like a sickening way, I haven't felt really well with my own life since then, I might need to rethink the way I cope with the things that make me feel bad.

It's pretty fascinating. I've been talking with some friends who are all aware of the prospect of having kids and what their relationship with technology will be. Dopamine is a real addiction, and social media notifications are a really cheap way to get a rush, and kids love that shit like nothing else. 'Likes' mean almost literally nothing, they accomplish nothing and prove very little, and yet we often obsess over them, weighing our success in on them.

I'm lucky in that I've never really had an addictive personality, or a 'rich' enough social life that relies on social media to function, so I've been able to move away from it pretty easily. It's great that you've had this realization, and recognizing it could be a problem. I think everyone could benefit from just changing a few notification settings, or unplugging between certain hours of the day.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Antonio-Pedro — Fri, 25 May 2018 21:36:48 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 05/26/2018 01:36

I actually conducted a "Fear of missing out" class on the Medical Education committee this week and actually found pretty interesting how many people were feeling kinda anxious and apprehensive for being exposed way too much without any kind of social media. I've been getting some fomo lately, mainly because I am really dependent of new info being posted all the time on the net, so every more and then I've been feeling addicted to social media, like a sickening way, I haven't felt really well with my own life since then, I might need to rethink the way I cope with the things that make me feel bad.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

YoungPunk — Fri, 25 May 2018 14:20:41 GMT

Author: YoungPunk

Posted: 05/25/2018 18:20

Started using twitter... Don't really know what I'm doing, Is it at all like facebook cause I hate that...?

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Anonymous — Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:17:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/03/2018 20:17

YoungPunk wrote:

@Puncture Repair

Stuff like "Wanted Man" (by Ratt) keeps showing up on my iHeartRadio :(

I think it's time to move to the woods.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

YoungPunk — Tue, 3 Apr 2018 13:15:46 GMT

Author: YoungPunk

Posted: 04/03/2018 17:15

@Puncture Repair

Stuff like "Wanted Man" (by Ratt) keeps showing up on my iHeartRadio 🙁

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:23:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/29/2018 08:23

I began to really reevaluate my online privacy back in September last year. It mostly started when I got one of those free ad coupons, and it absolutely frightened me just how acute I could target my content for just a fiver. Simply put, if you target your advertisement to only gay, black, left-wing men (which is totally possible), then those that 'like' the content are of that demographic. Information about you like your sexuality, your political alignment, your religion, can be sold off for sometimes very little money. By chance I saw this video the same week, which affirmed my concerns.

Profiling people is a dangerous tool. Facebook's AI is already getting eerily good at knowing very specific things about you, even if it's not something you've committed in writing. Whether you smoke, how open minded you are, whether your parents are divorced - with something like 80% accuracy. It's becoming able to determine whether you are homosexual or not based only on your profile picture - that's the power of AI. It has private access to billions of images of people, and a good proportion of them have 'Interested in...' on their profile. All AI has to do is check the image, decide whether it thinks you're gay or not, check the user data, then adjust itself based on success or failure. That's some eugenics type shit.

The straw on the camel's back for me is that Facebook even uses what you don't send in messenger in their profiling. As in, if you type something out but don't hit send, Facebook still keeps it for their records. This isn't some creepy backdoor stuff they're trying to hide, it's outlined in their privacy policy, and yet when I tell people this it almost always makes them uncomfortable - it's like thought policing.

I actually don't think Facebook has evil intentions, but I think it has scary implications. It might not be illegal to be a communist today, but what about tomorrow? Facebook might not be profiling homosexuals for illicit means, but what if that data or technology somehow fell into the wrong hands? Is that really worth it just so you can see that stupid fucking minions meme that guy from school liked??

I can get pretty tinfoil hat about this stuff, I just had my morning coffee and need to get working but I can provide sources on these if anyone would like to read more into it.

I gave it two weeks of not using Facebook, to deactivating it in January, and I just filed to have it deleted a couple days ago. Everyone I actually want to talk to, I still talk to. I haven't missed any parties. Sure, I miss my mate who moved to Japan's photos from time to time, but if I ever want to catch up with him, I send him a message.

I still use Twitter and Instagram, because I feel like those are public platforms where I conduct myself like I would walking down the street. If corporate spies want to see illustration portfolio, great, they might even know a guy that was looking to hire someone. Since taking up Twitter I've actually been able to surround myself with positive, productive people who work in my field, and it's doing wonders for my mental health compared to checking my Facebook feed every morning.

Just lastly, I really suggest people check out Mastodon. I can't praise it enough. It's an open source social network that's federated, which means it's data isn't hosted on any one single, controllable site - it's content is drawn from a huge pool of different smaller 'instances'. In a way, it mirrors how the internet was in its inception, millions of little websites all contributing. It's a real breath of fresh air, and it's engagement rate is great since the people who use it actually give a shit. It's been going strong with a number of niche communities for over a year now, and I don't see it disappearing anytime soon.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

II — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:35:07 GMT

Author: II

Posted: 03/28/2018 14:35

Social Media must be never trusted by us, the regular people.

They are people with opinions just like us, but they have more power to spread their opinions to all the other people.

It's really easy to convince people to believe in something (manipulation), not many people are brave enough to resist those opinions, because if they do, they would get humiliated by the others referring them as "odd" and sometimes "crazy".

The manipulators we have currently in this world (except Social Media) are:

Schools
The Government
Hospitals
Police
Newspapers
Television
...

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Antonio-Pedro — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:52:52 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 03/01/2018 03:52

I like tumblr, it is like my pretentious wasteland of thoughts and feelings, and began using IG lately, it's kinda addictive so I try to avoid keep looking at it

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

YoungPunk — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:13:41 GMT

Author: YoungPunk

Posted: 02/28/2018 02:13

I hate social media, never use facebook, twitter any of it. Only reason i'm thinking of joining twitter someday is to meet the music superstars online someday (probably when i'm super bored).

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Bi11LL26Y — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:46:00 GMT

Author: Bi11LL26Y

Posted: 02/27/2018 14:46

I check social media every once in a while, but if everything shut down tomorrow, I wouldn't be bothered that much.

Re: Social Media Is Too Addictive

Applerill — Mon, 3 Jul 2017 11:08:43 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/03/2017 15:08

Ever since 2004, my dad (who is a professional futurist that many executives pay money to get opinions from) has been convinced that social media is "just a fad", and his main argument is the massive difficulty most of the firms (with a few exceptions like LinkedIn) have of making any substantial non-VC profits. This is probably a really silly theory, but it's probably worth bringing up.

Personally I don't use that much "mainstream" social media, and while I do indeed have my qualms with the way Facebook is destroying western civilization and ideologically separating people from each other (the creator of the Facebook psychographics algorithm even compared it to the atomic bomb, for goodness sakes), I don't have anything against people using social media.

I think the healthiest social media use, though, is that which is most connected to the real world, so if you feel overwhelmed with your feed, try to plug it into real-life projects that you love. Over the past year with RYM, I've tried to not just use it to make great friends, but to catalogue all the music I discover at the dance studio I often go to. And instead of using Twitter as a countdown of all the horrible things happening in society, I use it to discover new art criticism, which I add to my Instapaper account and read on my iPad at the end of the week.

I hope that helps a little bit <3