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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow (www.newindianexpress.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

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[–] DigitalFrank@lemmy.world 171 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is as close as I get to social media.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck I literally thought that comment word for word before I loaded the comments for this post.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 34 points 10 months ago

We are all DigitalFrank on this blessed day.

This reminds me of an interesting dynamic I've witness this holiday season.

Now, to set the stage, most of my extended family and friends know well that I don't do social media. I left Twitter way back when it was just becoming necessary to grapple with the idea of the blue check, and Trump was still just some reality TV guy with cartoon hair the last time I made a Facebook post. I never got Instagram, TikTok, or any of those 2nd run of social media apps.

Everyone who knows me knows this about me. But this year when I talk about actually deleting my Facebook, people are aghast. No one is bothered that I haven't posted there in a decade, but me actually deleting my account is something more akin to actual death to a lot of these people. I don't get it.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Forums are definitely social media, but I like to think of them as the less shitty kind.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

True, whenever I see "social media" brought up though I'm always picturing Facebook, Twitter, Myspace. This and reddit and forums definitely are a form of though. Even bbs back in the day.

I tend to divide them based on how much they want to manipulate and sell me shit. Also how much of my personal info they require.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IRC was my social media back in the day lol

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still use it from time to time haha. I'm old, recently discovered how much discord has taken over as a forum/chat/irc sort of replacement.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mostly just use forums like Lemmy and Kbin these days.