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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
(www.newindianexpress.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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I think that number will grow as Twitter continues to decay. People clinging to the dead corpse is pretty cringe when it comes to Twitter.
Facebook is dead already I feel and most people I know using it are only in there for old people who can’t use anything else or for the marketplace. Under the same umbrella, instagram is dead unless you’re selling something.
Forums like Reddit and lemmy I think will last the longest, but even then when the toxicity grows and transfers over from Reddit to here I probably will stop using it as much
Also I say dead as in what it originally was has been lost in the wake of “influencers” and companies
It's a shame, facebook used to be great for local stuff, but the algorithm seems to have killed that.
Tried nextdoor but it's mostly Karens.
What's next-door?
I'm just now reviewing ancient comments and replies of mine. If you haven't found out already, think of a site that's similar to Facebook, but instead of making "friends" as the big draw, it's all about your neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. So it's filled with people asking about where to find "cheap reliable (insert service here like landscaping, drywalling, etc)", suspicious people seen around the place which another commenter mentioned, so given the very white, very Karen-like audience is probably just a notice that some racial minority person was here. Like I mentioned, lost pets are a common post, there was recent 2 different companies going around digging fiber lines for Internet service, and then the predictable "has anyone switched, how do you like it?" type posts that follow.
A lot of these people don't know each other, so their only common ground seems, at least where I am, to be mostly just where they physically live, and the fact that they all love Trump.