Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
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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.

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.

  • crackajack@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    No matter how much you rationalise it, forum is still a social media. You are still socialising after all-- in a medium of communication. You can still post pictures in forums if you want, but modern social platforms just have better UI and convenience to post videos and photos than older forums.

      • crackajack@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Well, people have been sending mails before just for fun. Hence the phenomenon of “penpals”.

              • crackajack@reddthat.comEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                I think people should read more about media theory. Especially “The Medium is The Message”.

                • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  Yes, but email isn’t “media”, while being a medium.

                  Lemmy & forums are social media.

                  Email is not.

                  However… Mailing lists (where all member have publishing rights) may make me rethink and retract this.

                  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    11 months ago

                    Saying you post on Lemmy/Forums, so it must be social media

                    Is like trying to argue that raw shit is food, because you can pick it up with a spoon and put it in your mouth.

                    You are stretching your point so fucking far, that anything from clay tablets to facebook is included under the umbrella, When you and everyone else knows (despite the inability of some to admit it) that social media is a very specific thing, that conjures a very specific idea when you are talking about it, and that very specific idea is generally facebook/twitter, where very specific kind of posts are made, typically linked to your real life face/name/life/business. Posts that you don’t generally make on forums, because when you post on forums you are posting in reference to the topic of the forum, because no one there gives a shit about your fake tits, fake tan or fake vacation picture.