1 Name: VIPPER 2017-10-03 02:41
Quoted by: >>43
What do you like or dislike about modern social media as opposed to SAOVQ-style boards?karma-like systems (karma, retweets, likes, endorsements etc) encouraging people to post stuff for attention instead of making a post for discussion/fun.
Do you think modernizing the UX could get more people back on board?You mean turn it into a heap of javascript mess that refuses your connection if you don't have a "modern" browser? No thanks.
Are you saying you don't have a modern browser?It's modern but not one of the recognized big ones. Something like Aurora would fall in the same category.
Why not?Why should I have a "modern" browser?
if you're really so opposed to itHTML+CSS expanding to do what would have previously required javascript doesn't make it any better.
I don't really enjoy Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. but I pretty much need to use them for networking and work. They are no longer just for fun. Daily life has been turned into PR. You have to do normal things that high-functioning, normal successful people to do, in order to show it off on social media to let future employees know how talented and well-adjusted and cool you are. You have to meet lots of new people on the off chance that one of them can hook you up with a better job. You have to keep your true personality hidden and stick to a facade that seems acceptable and relatively milquetoast and derivative unless you want backlash.
Then I come back here and it seems so foreign to me, even though I was used to it back in the day. Why have things shifted so much? Social media, back before it was called social media (usenet, BBSes, IRC, mailing lists, text boards, forums, etc) was about cool discussions and silliness. Now everything is work, work, work. Well, that and narcissism. There is still some aspect of fun to modern social media but it's seems definitely more professional-oriented and use as a tool for various things as opposed to socialization. Even the less serious platforms like Tumblr are getting increasingly politicized. And the normalization of using your real identity instead of anonymity or even a pseudonym has chilling effects because it makes people not want to express controversial opinions, at least to some degree.
I have grown older and I'm no longer into otaku/nerd culture, but I can't help but feel like a part of me died when I had to abandon more classic text boards and got more into normal modern social media. It's so stifling. Do you ever think there will be backlash against modern mainstream social media platforms or is real identity and extra data mining and professional usage the norm? Are text boards merely an anachronistic niche for a dwindling userbase that will never recover?
What do you like or dislike about modern social media as opposed to SAOVQ-style boards? Do you think modernizing the UX could get more people back on board? I'd like to hear your thoughts.