Do you think social media will ever go away?

Yes, it will go away when Armageddon happens

I'm close to 50 and wrote my first web page in 1995, and I'm a software developer to this day...and social media is not for me. I'm around 3 years into having deleted all my accounts and I do not regret it for a second.

I don't think it will ever go away, but it is clearly involving to be as meaningless as possible, a race to the bottom. At least when you had Facebook, you could type a story and add pictures.

With TikTok and Instagram, you're really just up to posting flex pictures. No context. Watering down of personality. LOOK AT ME!

I don't know where it goes from here, but it will go somewhere, it won't disappear (social media).

There probably will be a big backlash in the future, I mean really big, and then it will re-invent itself and other issues will crop up. At the very least, requiring real identities might be a solution. Part of the problem is people feeling they have no responsibility to be civil because they are "anonymous."

Maybe the populous can't handle anonymous.

Only when Greg gets a job.

I first got online around 2003. We had AOL dialup. Back then I was 14 and very happy in myself. I mainly went online to look for guitar tab... looking at porn never crossed my mind... good times. Around 2005-2010 I got involved in some internet forums for music and mental health. Met up with a few people from there... good times. Used MSN messenger a lot and talked with people from different countries. From about 2012 onwards the internet went to sh*t and now I hate it. There is no longer a place for quiet loners like me anymore and social media, online dating and online news only serve to alienate.

CB radios were a huge thing for a while there.

All I use is Discord and my I-phone. LR is not social media, it's clowning around with a toy conversation simulator.

If we are lucky.

I've been reading a lot of people posting lately about how the internet used to be this civil place where people had discussions and walked away respecting each other. While I'm sure that happened, and still happens, the internet was a raging sh*thole back then too. Internet trolls existed in the AOL chatrooms, news article comments, and on lets run. You could post whatever you wanted with zero monitoring or repercussions. There were no rules at all. The only real difference now is social media sites will ban you. No one got banned in 2002.

The thing that made it better back then is that it wasn't accessible at all times. If you wanted to troll the internet, you had to boot up your pc, dial in, hope it would connect, then log off when your mom needed to use the phone. It was a pain, which was a good thing. At that point you'd go back to being a normal human with real social interaction.