Yellow Page social site syndrome, what brings them down.

This 'Yellow page' effect is already occurring with me...as my time on twitter is beginning to dwindle.

I don't get on twitter to interact with adds, and promos and bots, and automated tweet accounts.
And when enough people start to feel as I do, that's when social sites begin to go down, like the life cycle of a star (as demonstrated above)

Once enough people start feeling, as I do, that while on twitter, no one is really listening to what you type, then more will leave or simply abandon accounts.

It's what happens when sites become over saturated with adds and promos...
People don't like feeling like their, our, only value is to consume products.

Again...it's just as empty and void of a feeling as it would be to shift through the yellow pages all day long talking to adds...

I notice online posting is down all over, not just on sites like twitter, but also on like online news site comment section like this story on Ex Viking kicker accuses coach of being bigot (gays)

In the past, a story like this would have generated at least 10-100 comments instantly, but today, hundreds of stories like this get no response...even from the regulars.

I observe maybe the online craze is beginning to wane, fade.

Maybe those who use to always post religiously, realize posting your opinion does little to change your status in life.

You don't get paid for it, don't become famous for it, and now, have to sign away your life to be able to post on online papers.

They want to know everything about you, email, contacts, where you live, on and on and on, all for what?

I observe more and more people are declining to register, and would rather just read article, than sign over their life simply to make a few comments.

That tells me people still very much value their privacy.

I also notice as more sites become gummed up with adds, and apps, less people sign in and or comment.

I've been saying this for a long time, that aggressive adds turn off die hard readers, or even forum members.

Leaving comments all over the web really do nothing to enhance ones life, at first it was exciting, leaving one comment, and a fake identity, and avatar, made millions feel like a miniature celeb...

"Oh look at me, everyone knows my opinion, I now matter, I can be heard, read, now just like famous people".

But no one has yet to become famous, or sign movie deal, for posting a comment online.

Truth is, if one isn't already a celebrity, you could post 10,000 comments, and still won't be a celebrity, your comments will just be filed away and eventually converted to un readable code.



Bots, are another big turn off to people, bot accounts, accounts that post automatically and send out repeated, replicated messages.

Twitter has many fake, or bot accounts, and so does FB, I hear...and other social sites.

People who only use social sites to cram products down the throats of members, are highly responsible for creating this new dry, cold climate.

People who join social sites, not to actually interact with folks, but to promote this or that, through 'bots'...are a major reason why online interacting is declining.

I mean if you have 10-100,000 or even 1 million, fake bot accounts, after a while it creates a vacuum.

Bots messaging other bots.

And it's why on twitter, you can observe less and less comments being left by real live humans....posted stories go blank, in comment section.

There is less and less human interaction.

I predicted all this in the first post...the 'Yellow Page Syndrome'.

I think the people who were around, or teens, or in early 20's, high school, when all this online inter action began, are simply maturing now, have grown up, some have families now, other responsibilities, and just don't have time to waste posting.

They've been around long enough to see that nothing ever comes of your post.

And I suspect have found other ways to satisfy their social needs, like maybe going out again and actually meeting real people, without some robot following them around touting 'Buy Coke, buy Coke' over and over again.

Whatever the reason, the decline is occurring...you'd have to be blind not to notice it.

And one more reason is saturation, now there's many other sites that offer what only a few did in the beginning.

Like the TV networks...



In the beginning there was only 3, now there's hundreds of channels, same with social media...there are so many sites now, that the pool of people who use to always be on 1 or 2 sites, are stretched over 100's of online interactive forums.

And new private ones are always popping up all the time, being invented by new computer science types.

Social media can feel cold and lifeless at times, expecially when you're going through real life issues, and realize the person you were confiding in turned out to be nothing more than a 'bot'...who only wants to sell you books, while even on your death bed.

Businesses selfishly hog up space on social sites, and eventually 'kill' them, like cancer does to a body.

How, why?

Social sites were created for people, ordinary Tom and Tina, to discuss daily occurrence's like 'what's for dinner?', 'what team do you play for?' and so on.

The Business come in and don't care what you had for dinner, what team you play for, how your mood is, all they want to do is Promote a product and or brand.

All their postings are automated one way programs...you could be dying, and they wouldn't know or care, all they want you to do is buy their product.

As such they destroy the 'social' in 'social sites'.

They don't retweet, don't say hello, don't ask about your day, all they do is post automated adds or slogans to get you to buy their products or brand.

And when bots become 40% of a social sites active accounts, the end is near, as people loose interest, get sick of never being responded to, and either out grow or move on to other more personable social site.

Sites that spy, embed spyware, add ware are like Hotels that install cameras in shower to peek at customers



Yep, it's no different. I mean with Instagram and other more easy to use photo sharing sites, some of the older Dinosaur photo sharing sites like Bucket, Flckr and others, really need to change their ways.

And even Topixs is beginning to loose followers, participants, as a thick film or mesh of adds constantly clog up browser and prevent user from typing. (people go on sites to interact with each other, not adds)

Even with high speed internet, it can be like using dial up service, cause all they do is cram that many more adds, or adds that are more powerful, and so slow computer down, or browser, with scripts ect.

There's nothing a user enjoys about that, users expect lightning quick speed when on line, and few have the patients to give up that speed, instant key pad response so some add can first present itself.

Some sites are haunted

(yes another term I invented)

In that if you go to them, there's nothing but adds, no people at all.

Just adds, scripts, pop ups, that long since drove away users, so it's simply adds selling to other adds. How sad.
Not sure what makes companies think that if they interfere with your online experience, you'll then buy their product? Not sure why people who program adds think that.

I can personally say there are a few sites, and a current one I'm fixing to close down, where my experience on them has been ruined do to so many adds being crambed down your throat, or browser, that it makes high speed internet operate as slow as dial up.



When that happens I just go elsewhere, to many other options to put up with that nonsense.

Sorry, but I don't get on social media to interact with adds and bots.

And it's sad sites continue to saturate space and members with 'bots'.

You hit links, just to realize article was written so you'd first have to shift through tons of adds, or hit arrow tabs ect.

And that the person who wrote the article doesn't even know you exist, nor do they care you visited their site, which is no more than some auto 'hit' driven money generator for them.

And that's why most blog articles seem so generic.

Accept here.

Nothing is written for profit here and is why sentiment expressed in posts are still so touching.

The spirit of true old fashion blogging hasn't been corrupted here by 'sales and commerce'.

And is why the Zone is it's own unique place.

There are no zombie writers here, thank goodness.

Sooner or later you will simply out grow the need for social media

It's like denial, but sooner or later, you just realize no one cares what you write, how you feel, how you look, and so forth.

It's all a façade, and sooner or later the glow of social media wears off.

You realize now it's all a money making mechanism, and most accounts are money making lifeless accounts paid to tweet or paid to FB.
Automated accounts that just post automated headline stories or pop culture stories for money.

If Shakespeare had written his master pieces on social media, it would be just another post or posts.

Most could have written books or novels with all the useless time put into social media, or earned a degree.

Even TV watching is becoming a waste of time, news shows like Fox and CNN ect, who prop up same Studio experts who some how feel they have better insight into reality than the rest of us.

Obviously they don't.

Social media gives the illusion of knowledge so that when you really have to learn something again, a true trade, mind isn't use to studying for long lengths of time do to effects of social media where everything is instant.

Also, social media really only makes sense if you have a group of friends you're already tight with in real life.

If you have no friends in real life, trying to create fake ones online will never ever happen.

Myself though, being a true writer, in that writing is in me DNA, I wrote before social media, through social media, and will be writing, expressing thoughts long after I've lost use for social media, I suppose social media for me has just been like a hallway to get some where else...who knows, only time will tell.