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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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[–] tal@lemmy.today 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And I still use social media the way many people originally imagined it: as a way to stay connected. My feeds have always been a mix of far-flung relatives, old friends, and high school band chums (because, let’s be honest, band buddies are the best buddies). Most days, I carve out a little time after work to catch up with the people who matter.

The last thing I’d want is for doing so to be...just more work. And yet, more than half of respondents agreed with the statement “Maintaining an online presence feels like work,” with about a third of those checking the “strongly agree” box. Only 16% disagreed, with the rest remaining neutral.

A full 60% of Gen Z respondents feel the pain of maintaining a social presence. Perhaps they have a niggling hope that they might still be discovered as an influencer?

I don't really care about the following-people form of social media, the Twitter family. I'm more interested in the forum sort, the Reddit family. There, I don't need to singlehandedly maintain a flow of content, because people aren't coming to see @tal@lemmy.today, but because they're coming to see what's going on in some community that I only incidentally participate in.

[–] grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I miss webforums terribly. phpBB boards were everything back in the day. Reddit/Lemmy isn't remotely the same.

I keep hoping some of the new old web stuff will manage to strike a spark again.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I personally prefer Markdown to BBCode and not having to have a ton of different different accounts, but if you want phpBB forums, they are out there. Search a Web search engine for a string that exists on the website that the forum software displays by default. "Powered by vBulletin", "Powered by phpBB", etc.

searches

https://www.findaforum.net/Home/TopForums/

[–] grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

It's annoying to have different accounts but at the same time I feel like it's a necessary component if you wanted to retain the same feel. Plus password managers making keeping it all organized dead simple.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 18 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

This exactly. I like the thread style formatting, because then I'm following a topic, and not an individual person, because I really don't give a shit what you had for breakfast, and don't need your food pics lol. I'm not into that, but if you post something interesting in a technology forum, then I'm quite interested.

[–] Dpek@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

Same here

Although unfortunatly multiple topics i like just arent nearly as developed on lemmy

Some are better developed on mastadon but its nowhere near the same as reddit

Others just dont exist

Some i know not to bother searching for because of how unlikely they are to exist on lemmy (rp1, for most that says shit all, maybe they think its about the fuel)

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

I haven't had breakfast yet. I'm still working on my Americano. #espresso

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm having coffee. Because I'm dragging ass. Because yesterday was my grandson's first birthday. But that was just the pièce de résistance of a week that saw me working through last weekend and putting in about 100 hours this week because my team was behind in a deliverable and that would hold up multiple other teams, making delivery by end of September impossible.

So I coded and refactored on a project I've never touched before because I'm the technical lead, which means I spend all day every day in meetings and unblocking people and planning new projects. All this, only to find out on Friday, with 4 hours of sleep, as I was running back and forth between meetings and helping set up for the party, that some other team didn't understand the requirements until they tried to implement the design which we provided weeks ago.

They were supposed to build a landing page to call the registration and login API and orchestrate the results. They have done none of it and now want to re-architect the whole back end to give them less work. After I nearly killed myself getting my team's ducks in a row.

So I'm exhausted I think I've slept 10+hours each of the last two nights and the only fuel I have left in my take is rage and venom. And I have to process this all by tomorrow so I can figure out how to calmly and diplomatically explain to this other team that they can eat shit.

Which is where the coffee comes into play. Sorry to interrupt my gripping tale of breakfast fluids with such a lengthy rant about tech. Cheers!