Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone

Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by toast0 on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:04PM (#26227865)

> As a millennial (25), I disagree with the notion that all of Facebook and Instagram are vapid and meaningless. To me, that just shows that you're not curating your feeds in a manner that highlights what good remains on the platforms.

I don't know about Instagram, but Facebook will put vapid garbage into your feed if you've curated it down enough. 'You might be interested in ...' because they don't want to have a stale feed when your friends aren't doing anything.

Disclosure: I worked at Facebook, as part of an aquisition; however, I never worked on or with the feed team.

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by tp3 on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:09PM (#26227944)

So I like twitter, and I get a handful of tweets per day - no more, no less. But I just can't resist trying to get more of my "tweets" into my phone, whether my friends want to share, or just 'liked" or commented or likes the comment I just wrote in twitter. (It's okay, it'll probably get deleted, sorry. I just love Twitter.) I also like getting 'likes' off of 'twitter', but mostly because my friends and co-workers can see those, and feel 'liked' too. Like I said, I'm a user of twitter for a few reasons and a very important reason - to engage more with people online - whether social media wants me to, or isn't too keen to allow me.

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Re:Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone by bryan_w on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:24PM (#26230852)

I still can't find the settings on Twitter (web) to get a plain normal feed. I still get them pushing "topics" and my friend's liked content in my feed.

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