MillennialsAreRetarded wrote:
The subject line should read "Has social media ruined the world?"
The answer to that question would be yes.
Social media, another great reason to hate millennials.
Social media is the disease that poisoned a whole world?
Come on, phenomena of social media is just one symptom of a larger disease that is killing society.
In and of itself social media is merely an extension of many things that has come before it.
MillennialsAreRetarded wrote:
The subject line should read "Has social media ruined the world?"
The answer to that question would be yes.
Social media, another great reason to hate millennials.
This, I feel compelled to participate simply by peer pressure. Facebook was fine, but when we got to Twitter and Instagram we had gone too far. Bring it all back to one, maybe things get better.
CGBatch wrote:
This, I feel compelled to participate simply by peer pressure. Facebook was fine, but when we got to Twitter and Instagram we had gone too far. Bring it all back to one, maybe things get better.
Why do people feel they need so many sites?
I have never felt peer pressure in my life - I joined Facebook as I wanted to.
But I don't get why people join the others too, like Twitter, Instagram, Snap Chat, etc.
I joined FB as it's a nice diary of photos, and somewhere to share silly videos, but can't imagine why anyone would want to join a load of others. Do they just repeat themselves?
I have never understood Twitter. Makes no sense to me at all. Facebook is easy and clear and obvious.
I find the women that post posing photos extremely annoying. They must get all kinds of hassle off men messaging them willy photos. I always look rough in my photos as they are running ones and have never had a willy photo!
Why so many sites? wrote:
Why do people feel they need so many sites?
I have never felt peer pressure in my life - I joined Facebook as I wanted to.
But I don't get why people join the others too, like Twitter, Instagram, Snap Chat, etc.
To answer the question above: choices. What if there existed only one digital social media outlet, possibly run by the government, that people could use with no alternatives? Would you still want to use it? But now, we can choose between FB, IG, Twitter, Snapchat, tbh, or any combination of those listed (or others). Doesn't it feel better to have a choice rather than the alternative?
Oh yes! I love this illusion of choice. More, please!
OP, your friends suck or your attitude sucks or both. Find better ones.
On Strava, my friends are nice to me, nice to each other. There's no 1-upping, as far as I can tell. Sometimes people post stuff they're proud of or pretty shots (mountaintops, sunrises, whatever), or group photos. I don't follow anyone I haven't personally run with.
On FB, I have just a couple friends who are annoying and always post stuff about how great they think they are. I stopped following their posts; I no longer see things from them unless they post on mine or someone else's wall.
I'm friends with around a hundred people on Strava, at least several hundred (maybe closer to a thousand) on FB. Zero celebrities on either.
A friend of my wife posted a pic boasting about a 48 minute 5K.
Craziest thing is that this lady is slim and in shape so not actually sure how she managed to walk that slow for 5K.
Also two women at my work are running a marathon to raise money for charity. Fair enough but the catch is, wait for this, they're running the total of 26.2 miles between them over 1 month.
They should be charged with fraud.
This is just a little glimpse of what I have seen and social media is the ultimate dream for narcissists who sadly seem to be everywhere.
sdafdsfda wrote:
OP, your friends suck or your attitude sucks or both. Find better ones.
On Strava, my friends are nice to me, nice to each other. There's no 1-upping, as far as I can tell. Sometimes people post stuff they're proud of or pretty shots (mountaintops, sunrises, whatever), or group photos. I don't follow anyone I haven't personally run with.
On FB, I have just a couple friends who are annoying and always post stuff about how great they think they are. I stopped following their posts; I no longer see things from them unless they post on mine or someone else's wall.
I'm friends with around a hundred people on Strava, at least several hundred (maybe closer to a thousand) on FB. Zero celebrities on either.
I only have instagram. It's not my friends I only follow about 25 people, it's what popped up on the "explore" function I don't have Strava either. I just go on runs and hear people bragging in person about, or gossiping about others segments.
Turkeyday wrote:
I have no more social media accounts. It's pretty freeing. Gobble gobble mother fawker
You are using social media when you post on message boards.
Oh, I've never used instagram, nevermind then :) That does sound annoying.
sloinnorcal wrote:
Why so many sites? wrote:
Why do people feel they need so many sites?
I have never felt peer pressure in my life - I joined Facebook as I wanted to.
But I don't get why people join the others too, like Twitter, Instagram, Snap Chat, etc.
To answer the question above: choices. What if there existed only one digital social media outlet, possibly run by the government, that people could use with no alternatives? Would you still want to use it? But now, we can choose between FB, IG, Twitter, Snapchat, tbh, or any combination of those listed (or others). Doesn't it feel better to have a choice rather than the alternative?
That's not answering my question why people use ALL of them. Pick your favourite, then why use all the others too?