Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion

Re:Social media promised connection, but it has delivered ex... by UmGuys on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:55AM (#45230509)

Of course it is, but it's intended to divide and control and it's proving to be pretty powerful. FB stopped connecting people sometime around 2012.

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Re:Social media promised connection, but it has delivered ex... by willtemperley on Saturday September 13, 2025 @05:41AM (#45230743)

I do wonder if this is just a symptom of monetization. Free advertising with viral posts was possible for talented marketers until the early 2010s. Now you have to pay.

OTOH I have seen examples where messages were supressed. A FB acquaintance was sued under the DMCA for posting data that has since legally been deemed public domain. I suggested setting up in the Netherlands where DMCA is not recognised, via Messenger. Meeting this person in person sometime later, it turned out this message was never delivered. They'd thought I was working for the company that sued them.

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Re:Social media promised connection, but it has delivered ex... by UmGuys on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:27PM (#45234240)

The shift was the news feed IMO. You have to consider the profit model. Users are the product.

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