Yes, it kind of is hypocritical to ask this on a social media platform, but what do you guys get out of it?
I’ve been shitposting and talking to other anonymous people online since 1999.
UBB anime boards
Somethingawful
4chan
and now, I dance the babushka, for you!
And now, I find myself home to Lemmy. Just one of the thousands of Anons posting opinion, then meme, then opinion, then shitpost in the background static of the greater internet hive mind.
Arguments, rebukes, comments, discussions… discourse. It’s all necessary to me. I have to get in the fray. I have to cause the fray, in some instances. Discussion is life, passion in many instances. People care about what they care about and I both want to know why and tell why.
Dopamine. Affirmation. Attention.
Although I don’t share that much on social media anymore.
For me, it’s nice to share information and have light, friendly interactions. I don’t care for engaging in online conflicts or debates. That kind of stuff adds unnecessary stress to my life that I don’t want.
As far as SM with my real identity, like IG: It’s nice updating friends and family about life events. Sometimes I post silly things. Stuff like engagement doesn’t bother me bc it’s not about having a popularity contest.
But in particular, I like posting highlights as they happen throughout the year. My memory (for dates, especially!) isn’t that great, so this lets me scroll through in chronological order and quickly see what I’ve been up to. It’s sort of like keeping a picture diary.
Do you find Instagram is still working well for you for this purpose?
I signed up due to popular pressure at some point, and in the beginning the chronological feed was very nice. I would use it maybe once a week or less, and like the stuff my friends had posted since last time.
Then over time, my friends’ content started drowning in I don’t even know what. Sometimes I would see a post or two, but I would never see everything they had posted since last time. It just didn’t work as a platform to use for consuming a finite amount of content.
I ended up abandoning ship. But it sucks a bit, as my friends might still be on there posting things I would have been happy to see.
Yeah I agree the home feed sucks now, for chronological purposes. It used to be better. But what I do is I favorite (star?) close friends/family so that it gives me a notification whenever they post something. For everyone else, I might miss their updates especially since I don’t spend forever on there…
It’s very human to want interaction with other humans, we’re a social species.
In the case of social media the protocol is a little different than in 1-1 interactions. Everyone broadcasts their thoughts, and reacts to the thoughts of others, also in the form of a broadcast. It’s no more or less valid than other communications contexts. And not new either, technology just made it more efficient and available to everyone.
“Be the reason someone smiles today”. ,… and I need to gou out and touch some grass and take some more photos soon. I wanted to largely post pics of things people don’t normally see and hope they go 'cool, that’s a nice shot, might make it my wallpaper".
