The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media

Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by wingerlang on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:07AM (#18030566)

  Or you’ll follow a few interest points and miss everything they post because you don’t visit every hour and it’ll drown in the feed if you don’t.

As long as you don't feel the need to see everything they post you should be fine.

  I honestly think all the regular people on twitter are either unemployed or spending so much work time on social media that they ought to be fired.

I'm a regular that finds some value in Twitter, I follow only a few people and I think Twitter does a fairly good job of surfacing interesting tweets. It also takes me only 2-3 screens to get caught up after a few days. It doesn't have to be an uncontrollable firehose of shit content unless you let it become that way (see: following 1000 active accounts).

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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by eksemplar on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:28AM (#18031408)

I probably should have said Danes. Americans have taken to twitter in a different way than we have, I still don’t get how you have time for it though, or how you get value from your time there, but that might just be me,

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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by wingerlang on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:46PM (#18036848)

I probably spend 10-15 minutes per day (or less) on Twitter.

I follow 60 accounts and maybe 10-15 of them are very active. They tend to be either high profile people in my community meaning they comment or share resources quite often. Or they are developers and share progress on their projects. Both types I find value in.

For me I think the best thing is to simply unsubscribe to someone whenever you start finding that their tweets bring 25% value rather than 75%. I do the same with Youtube, I give them some leeway but once I find myself not really watching their videos I just unsubscribe.

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