• wahming@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    The article should be titled ‘Why social media isn’t fun anymore’, because that’s all the author is talking about.

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      1 year ago

      It’s equal to “the internet” for people who don’t work in IT. Super sad actually.

      There are entire counties where Facebook is “the internet”.

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        7 months ago

        Ah, we’re doing one of those full circle things. I actually remember the time when AOL was “the internet.”

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      I too get irrationally annoyed when writers fail to make the distinction. There was an episode of Reply All a while back where they analyzed the “emotions of the Internet” … using Twitter. Twitter literally exists to maximize negative emotions! In no way was it representative of the experience (unless you’re a tech writer).

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      I still feel like the social web has sucked in a lot of things that used to exist outside of it.

      Like blogs. I feel like the blog world was much healthier before most of the content moved out of independent websites to a unified dump of social shit.