Did social media kill the Internet?

Lewian wrote: ... Though PA quite actively contributed to its own downfall with the Captcha disaster; one thing Facebook cannot be blamed for for sure.

Davesax1965 wrote: I think what killed the internet was when PC's and operating systems became simple enough for any old f*ckwit to use the internet.  So they did.  The internet would be OK if there was a shallow deep end and a very deep end.

Lewian wrote: vivoactive has a valid point though. This forum as well as others where I was or am active lose members and activity to Facebook and co., and as the TO I'm still a good old forums guy and Facebook etc. are not for me. Though PA quite actively contributed to its own downfall with the Captcha disaster; one thing Facebook cannot be blamed for for sure.

Well, never did care for Twitter because of the Twitler infestation.  Facebook on the other hand.  I have no tolerance for idiots.  I ignore them as soon as they reveal themselves.  What I am left with are friends I've known personally.  Former coworkers.  Famility.  Friends with common interests that I haven't met in person and so I really do enjoy it.  Of course before deFacebook there was progarchives.  And I have made more than a few friends i haven't met in person but would certainly get together for lunch if they ever visit the Atlanta area.  One of my latest discoveries has been House of Prog.  I also do chat for The Bill Pres and Stephanie Miller shows.  So to answer the question for me, no it hasn't.

No, but I expect some negative effect on the abundance of niche sites such as this one. Side-note: It's still easy to create forums, I would say, but it can be costly and too much work to be "worth it".

I'm not that into music forums other than this one, but that's partially because we can talk about more than music. If it was all music, I would have left long ago.

I do find there to be far fewer old-school forums/ bulletin boards than there used to be. Reddit is the big one when it comes to discussion forums, and sites like Quora are useful.

I'm not keen on sites such as Facebook or Twitter, but they have their uses.

My experience, and my experience is limited, has been that long-form deep "discussion", creativity, story-telling, and more elaborate forms of humour have lessened since my early days on the internet.   Before the advent of the popular social media sites of today, I was rather blaming it on the rise of topics such as "What are you eating and drinking right now?" which did tend to fit the burgeoning blogger communities way of sharing the most mundane/banal of things.

I used to find it much easier to find forums of interest to me on dedicated web sites (Reddit can cover most everything).   I've tried a few over the past decade, but most seem very insular and so cliquish that it's hard to join in. I don;t know how many niche forum sites are as welcoming to new people, and can have a wide variety of discussion, as this one. I found this site easy to get into discussion with people from the get go, and I don't think that's changed, In fact, I think it's more laid back now and a newbie may find it easier to feel accepted, tolerated and wanted now than then.

I doubt that most people who are into modern social media a la Twitter, Facebook and the like would have been drawn into forums that operate like this one, but I do think that they have had a negative impact on the creation of sites such as this one and have had an impact on long-form internet discussion.

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Edited by EmmaClarkS - August 02 2021 at 03:40

I don't regard 'Social Media' as a thing. People hiding behind computers and pretending to have a thousand friends. A 10-13 year old kid gets hold of his parents log in details and then posts some racist attention seeking bullsh*t because he/she is bored to f**k and seeking attention. 

Edited by richardh - July 28 2021 at 15:59

dr wu23 wrote: What is 'social media' ?

SteveG wrote: dr wu23 wrote: What is 'social media' ?

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siLLy puPPy wrote: ... If anything damaged the internet it is what is referred to as the Google Gestapo which includes Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Amazon and several others which have lucrative CIA contracts to spread information, engage in censorship and construct a massive global surveillance state. ...