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What was your social media path? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Carrolade@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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Inspired by a comment in another thread, what was the path you took over your life, through the various online social media we've had?

By way of example, I started in Yahoo chatrooms, to a little bit of Myspace and private forums, to ICQ and IRC, to no online socials for awhile, to facebook, to 4chan, to reddit, ending up here on lemmy.

I've never used twitter, insta, tiktok, etc for any length of time.

If you'd like, your native language and a rough estimate of your age can be included for additional context.

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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago*

If it interests you to see an in depth what a zoomer's experience of social media might be:

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[2015-16] only used YouTube, but a lot, and i was one of those idiots who would get into lomg winded arguments or try to hold conversations in the comments (i was a kid so don't hate)
spent a lot of time watching videos on star wars lore and got more into it because the sequels were coming out
discovered star wars forums
[2016]forums for minecraft servers i was in
[2017] big WhatsApp groupchat with school friends
also joined discord because 1 friend refused to use whatsapp or something
friends start to move to instagram for some reason, begrudgingly join
[2018-19] start to use reddit becauss I was fascinated by the in depth heart to heart discussions, eventuslly realised it had an abundance of easy to access NSFW content, which was terrible for me
[2020] start to use instagram professionally for art portfolio
[~2021] become more openly anti-porn, which is a large reason I'm at odds with reddit
[2021] start to use twitter/X. Completely impossible to actually grow there unless you have a cross-platform content strategy (e.g if you make youtube videos and your twitter acct is the same name)
long period of no change, delete twitter accounts over and over for privacy reasons.
[23-24] have to use facebook for uni societies, property viewing and various other grown-up stuff. Alao only way for relatives to know I exist.
[2024/25] start to use Nitter instead whenever I want to see a twitter thing.
[2025] delete instagram because it has high tech demands and is inconvenient to use
discover piefed because it's advertised as reddit but less ccorrupt. Get permabanned from reddit around the same time.

Other things I've dabbled in: pixelfed, twitch.

Never used: Telegram, Snapchat, BeReal, TikTok, PornHub or similar.

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