Do you think social media will ever go away?

Land lines are still around and people still use them to make phone calls. Old tech will be very slow to die. Especially social media where people have invested a lot of memories. Even email addresses are pretty sticky. You can change them, but most people don’t.

Virtual spaces have been around for a long time already. Adoption will continue to be slow until there is some better tech. If it ever really catches on it is likely this will follow the same pattern where young kid go there first to socialize while trying to avoid the generations before them.

Of coarse these knew forms wont take of. Just look at are site for proof that updated technology isnt that impotent. We have the most impotent running sight on the web and we designed used a design from 1998.

It's entirely possible that social media, which I take to include not only things like Facebook but also things like dating apps, has just about run its course. People are overloaded, fatigued. The world we live in feels fake.

One interesting question is how much of the time and energy investment into social media is really a negative, instead of positive, incentive. For example, how many people post a photo of their vacation out of a feeling of "Since other people post photos of their vacations, if I don't do the same then I seem like a weirdo who doesn't take vacations or like someone who can't afford to." In this way, we could say that social media belongs to the category of economic "goods" that solves a problem it created, or manufactures its own demand.

Take dating apps as an example. Before they exploded into our culture, people had no trouble finding dating candidates in everyday life. Online dating at first might've solved some niche problem such as finding someone in a far away location if you have some very narrow set of requirements (e.g. you're HIV+ and so you can only have a sexual relationship with someone else who's HIV+). Then, when dating apps came into widespread use, they had created the problem of meeting someone in real life, a problem to which dating apps supposedly offer a solution.

Do you see what I mean?

No it won't go away because humans are social creatures. Even though it is not real face to face interaction, it still astutely simulates social interaction. Even though many can acknowledge the toxicities of social media, they are not compelled to leave it. It is addicting and mentally and emotionally fulfilling. People who are highly intelligent and independent don't require that sort of stimulation as they can generate it in other forms, so they may not need social media. But most people fiend for social media and can not get away from it even if their life depended on it.

This is a good post, no sarcasm.

I think FB is the worst--likes, mentions, follows are the "currency" of social media and if you feel you are falling behind in not staying with it it's the worst feeling in the world, as the makers want you to believe.

I tired of FB several years ago. I decided I would talk to people, if possible, telephone, in person or (OMG!) write a letter. I get enough virtual stuff, texts, etc with my profession. I do think a lot of social media has contributed to the shorter attention spans of a lot of people and there is a lack of substance in content and thought.

Social media is practically useless. Instagram, FB and Twitter can all be deleted and I would not miss any of it.

YouTube, Reddit and LR are the only sites i visit that could be considered social media but they allow you to be more anonymous, which sort of goes against the appeal/goal of the big three social sites.

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Hell No.

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https://onlypult.com/blog/how-to-remove-a-shadow-ban-from-your-instagram-account

, which I was able to use to solve my problem.

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It will eventually but it will be replaced with something else - some new form of channel for people to communicate on. It's widely regarded that this could be virtual reality social hangouts or something similar but for now and probably the next 10/20+ years as social media matures, its going to stay.

please stop hating on Silicon Valley

People will go away first.

I'm a 23 year old guy and most of my peers and I are very burnt out on social media.

Only old people use Facebook. Instagram is definitely on the way out, its popularity among the young crowd is nowhere near what it was 3-4 years ago.

Twitter is used less and less, especially as people enter the working world. The only people I know who use Twitter are those people who spend all their time online.

Interestingly, the one platform that appears to have staying power with people my age is Snapchat. People use this to keep in touch and group chats and its great for dating as well.

What Snapchat figured out is most people don't want things to be permanent, and they don't want to share everything they post with literally every person they know.

I wouldn't necessarily call Snapchat social media even. It's more of an enhanced texting application than anything, it's more like an alternative to iMessage than an alternative to Instagram.

I think TikTok will be around for a long while, but the thing is, it's very much about passive escapism. Most TikTok users never post and just watch other people's videos. So there's really not much that is "social" about it.

As for VR, I think that stuff is literally demonic and all my homies agree. We're not entering Zuckerberg's matrix. No way lol

Facebook will be around a long time because it has become the de facto family photo album of nearly everyone.  

The kids may not be using FB much, but how long are you a “kid” on social media?    Not more than 10-15 years.   Most people  stop caring about their social media presence right about the time they get married, start a career and have kids.   So the “cool” social media companies will probably come and go in 10-15 year cycles, but people want a place to post an album of kid’s birthdays and vacation pics for their friends and family that will be available for years and years.  FB will continue to be able to sell ads against that for a long time.  Plus, FB’s penetration globally is  multiples higher than Snap/twitter.  Some platform will eventually come along and take that role from FB, but I don’t think that platform has been invented yet.

 At some point in the near future when interest rates spike and everyone gets out of growth stocks, Twitter and Snap will tank and be bought by a media conglomerate.  

Tiktok is the wildcard both because it is  a Chinese firm and because it’s not clear yet whether they will have consistent content creators over a longer timeframe.  

Everything runs its course, and if you spend ANY time on platforms like Twitter and the like, you see that 99% of the users are either selling something or suffering from a serious mental disorder.  Reads the comment section of any blog or newspaper.  Heck, read the comments here.  Very few sane people participate in social media.  I too was around when people could have normal conversations, but those days are gone.  The space will continue to evolve and change; they may get lucky with the metaverse and figure out a way to keep people engaged.  My guess is that it will have to do with remote work.  The only way to keep people feeling like they need to maintain a social media presence is to somehow tie it to their livelihood.  Otherwise, people will just drop it and move on.  I deleted all of my social media accounts after years (decades...?) of daily activity and felt a great sense of freedom.  I am not alone.  If Meta can get employees to trade their real lives for a virtual work environment, I think they keep their users.  If they can't , it'll be a flop.  I honestly think a lot of people - not all - would have ditched their email accounts and smart phones if it weren't for the fact that their jobs require them to stay connected through those platforms.  We'll see.  If the youngsters are smart, they will buck this stuff entirely.  What a mess...

I think social media will still be around for decades, untill something takes over. I also liked mor the old ICQ and MIRC chats, perhaps cause they were popular during my childhood. I am myself in smm business (social media panels) but dont enjoy nowadays biggest social media sites a lot.