Yellow Page social site syndrome, what brings them down.

I rejoined tik tok again, and got bored with it in a matter of days.
I mean you get a flurry of views, and then everything just drops off, not to mention the constant sign in issues, ect, I mean who has time for all that if not making money from it.

Sure, tik tok boosts a few people to fame by allowing their videos to be seen, but the vast majority of users on there are just there to have their info harvested.

Seems every year, for the last 5 or more, you get less and less views, regardless.
Getting views has become such a strategic organized thing now.
In the past, views, the ones you got, were totally organic, those days are gone.

Now, people buy, use, apps to get views, and other behind the scenes stuff...they cheat, basically.
And AI, googles AI, is making views even harder to come by now.
Whole websites get ignored now by the search engines.

Years ago, you could find 'The Zone' on search engines, well, not anymore, so how do others find this place?
It's not a level playing field anymore.

It's all but a waste of time, but most of us, at least older types, just still linger on social media out of habit, I suppose.

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I don't know, same o same o to me.

Not really in the mood for any social media anymore, referring to Reddit.
The same ole getting addicted and dependent on others to confirm your value, I mean why give others that power over yourself?

Reddit might be fun, if I were drunk, but I'm sober now, so it just seems like a dud.
Going forward, I'm ready to start engaging the real world again, have about had enough of the false promises of online communities.

So ye, I think I'll pass on Reddit for now, just not in the mood for it, maybe later though, when in a different mood.

I have about zero use for social media anymore.

I mean what's the incentive to get onto social media now?
To post a bunch of stuff that no one will see or respond to?
That's what this place here is for, the dumping of thoughts, but without all the noise or info harvesting.

My 'to do list' has me going onto Face Book, cause I still have an account there but rarely ever use it anymore.

But you know what, I'm so disgusted with social media now, that I really just have no interest in it anymore.

I'm sick of people, others, taking shots at you, while hiding behind a fake name or identity.
I'm sick of 'likes', thumbs up, followers, ect...none of it pays my bills.
You end up worrying about peoples opinions who'll never show up at your funeral, and you can lose hours on those platforms accomplishing absolutely nothing.

I prefer old fashion phone call or face to face meeting over social media, which is absolutely meaningless to me now.

Instead of getting on FB I'd just rather get dressed and go to the store, or drive around, and see and interact with real people.

At least in real life there's no algorithm determining who does and does not see me.

Deactivated my one and only last remaining account on X, or twitter, talk about a feeling of liberation.

I mean why should I continue to waste my time going to a site where I get basically no views, no comments, no impressions, nothing....while at the same time I get harvested for my info...screw that.

It becomes an emotional drain after a while, when you post superb comments, stuff, and yet the algorithm suppresses your posts.
I think the people prior to Elon taking over did it.

Cause I used to get like 500+ average impression, twitter used t be fun, prior to the Trump years, but it just changed when Trump ran for office.

It's not Trump's fault, but that's just when ultra left types began tweeking stuff behind the scenes, shadow banning ect.

What an evil practice shadow banning is.
Silicon valley is full of evil snake like people, period.
I guess every ones capable of being evil, but not all evil people have control over others like folks in silicon valley