tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-06-24:2418918 So, I wanna talk about something... starseerdrgn 2016-04-05T14:10:26Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-06-24:2418918:9335 2016-04-05T14:10:26Z 2016-04-05T14:10:26Z public 0 <p>Social media annoys me these days.</p> <p>It's not the social justice zealots. It's not the political nature of damn-near <em>everything</em> that the people I follow retweet. It's not even the <em>silicone stupidity</em> of those in the tech industry tweeting about things that they have no knowledge of.</p> <p>It's the fact that social media feels more like a chore and addiction. </p> <ul> <li>I don't <em>have fun</em> with Twitter, and I've completely left Facebook. </li> <li>*diaspora and GNU Social are rather politically charged, and there's rarely anything interesting on them for my tastes. </li> <li>reddit has become the next digg, with people who simply want to cause hell for everyone else. It's not a fun site.</li> <li>GitHub has gone from "location for code" to "let's make coding <strong>social</strong>!" The problem is that the attitudes of people on the site make me uncomfortable even looking at it these days, and that makes it more of a chore.</li> </ul> <p>The social web just feels like it's <em>too much</em> now. I miss the smaller communities of the forums I used to go to, and of sites like <em>Hatena Haiku!</em> (which is sadly discontinued due to spammers) and <em>FriendFeed</em> (Gone due to being acquired by Facebook). Even <em>Google Buzz!</em> and <em>Yahoo! 360</em> didn't feel this bad.</p> <p>Perhaps it's the communities in question, but I believe it's also one other piece that most of the sites share: the <em>forced socialization</em> aspect. </p> <ul> <li>Twitter constantly bugs you about following others and seeing tweets you don't necessarily care about.</li> <li>Twitter's "Quote Retweets" <strong>can't</strong> be turned off, therefore giving people the ability to bombard their followers without having to worry about the "Turn Off Retweets" option that people have had for a while.</li> <li>Facebook constantly has a "People You May Know" area to try that you can't always dismiss.</li> <li>GitHub has effectively turned git commits and issue reporting into a social activity with their profile feeds.</li> <li>reddit is all about "anonymous socialization" with the news.</li> </ul> <p>I don't know for sure, though. Maybe I'm just becoming more introverted. That's always been a possibility…</p> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=starseerdrgn&ditemid=9335" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments