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The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)
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[–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Essentially they pushed so much crap into your feed that your friends got pushed out.

So then what was the point of posting your current status when your circle might only see it two or three days later?

The immediacy was lost, and thus so was the usefulness.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I agree fully with the crap in the feed. The inmediacy though, not so much. I recall when they started that and people were still posting they tried to use it for engagement. A new post from a friend that had engagement would be repeatedly resurfaced in your feed.

    It did mean less consequential posts from days earlier did feel stale and pointless when they were pushed through again, though, if that's what you meant.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    The problem is that an algorithm defines "less consequential posts" and it doesn't have your best interests at heart, at all.

    I did wonder if posts from friends were deliberately delayed so that you would be guilted into responding to their Big Thing that you didn't see on your feed. Eventually, you'd be trained to keep scrolling to find posts from your friends, and they'd be trained to keep checking for replies days after their Big Thing, thus maximising user engagement and profit.

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