Social Media: How We Got Here. 

"Social" media, the irony of it. Because it seems as a society we're now more disconnected and lonelier than ever.

The more I stopped using the other social media apps the more I ended on youtube🤣

The worst effect social media has is a massively reduced attention span. Take note next time you’re at a social gathering. There will be a point where everyone pulls out their phone to scroll. I’ve seen this happen for years, since I have only ever been a youtube guy. I don’t see any value in social media…

Th biggest concern is that most of us don't think about how to take advantage of social media. Scrolling is a behavior happens when people don't have a specific goal of searching on internet. I have a goal of looking up on internet about social media, that's why i'm learning from this video. But most people are on the contrary, and that's why they gain less from internet

Social media was made to make communications easier but it made it hard for people to communicate 😅

I've never tried BeReal but I like the idea of non-public/more intimate social media. Instagram etc can feel like a performance these days instead of just a way to connect with people.

Great video! This is going to age really well! Apple Vision Pro and Soar AI coming out the same year is not a coincidence

Great video man. You keep getting better at this! 🙌🏼

Great video, I'm excited to see what changes the Apple Vision Pro will bring!

Actually, they are my home when I went for work for a year. They are really I got nothing. I’ve been on the platform I live with. I live with my life. I’m social and Maria my childhood home.

So social media before MySpace was GeoCities and Tripod where you could host your own static web pages and have a circle of similar stuff, and then there is still IRC. But general social media? It peaked for me with Twitter in 2011 after the big quake in Japan, no other media could connect people all over the country and share information that fast. It was really great, but since then it just became more pushy about what twitter wanted me to see and not what I wanted to see. Same with Facebook, at some point I stopped checking it and never returned, same with Instagram, I wanted to see the photos from my friends but at some point it was more recommendations than content I wanted to see. So right now I am only on Mastodon on a local server which feels very much like the IRC chatrooms I am still on with the same people from almost 30 years ago ... Full circle? Oh and the AI (or LLM actually) stuff, I leave that to my kids. Perhaps in future they will have brain implants and just stare into the air while flipping through TikTocks :D (oh and happy new year)

good analysis 👍

I remember when Facebook had the “poke” option

I like how social media got here and great video man :]

Tik tok is the worst needs to be banned

I hope it becomes more creative and expressive instead of influencers mindlessly doing and sharing the same things over & over again. And more acceptance of individuality and authenticity.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Too much AI will make it lose its value. I'm already starting to get exhausted with Gen AI content and in fact choosing to use social media less because of it. I can totally see most people in fact disassociate with SM apps and smartphone in general. The recent popularity of 90's and early 00's aesthetic points to just that. More and more people in my circle are dropping it cold turkey. 🤷‍♂️

I feel like the apple vision pro will be the fourth wave of social media :]

wow you and I read the same articles

Why don’t you mention the fediverse? That’s something that for sure is gonna change social media.

I think all this ai created stuff is gonna make it more cluttered

Happy new year 🎊

Babies are born everyday, social media is mot going anywhere

I grew up with RU-vid, so I haven't gotten so into the Instagram, Snapchat etc stuff. I am also not into short-form videos, like shorts and what TikTok gives. I think that can be because I have grown up with longer videos. But I hate that everyone is quitting RU-vid. Yeah, I get the reasons, but it is still sad to see that the first-ever RU-vidr you started watching needs to leave RU-vid. (He still makes videos, but only for Paterion members. It is a Swedish RU-vidr so no English-speaking people are gonna be interested, just want to say that before someone asks.) Because of this, I don't have so much phone-time only like 2 hours max. But if you ask my computer time, that's 10 hours or even more when I am not at school. (On holidays and weekends of course. Can maybe happen when I am sick too, don't want to spread my sickness to other people but am still fine watching RU-vid alone.)

Underrated video 😢

w video

Snapchat is my favorite and threads app is nice app and TikToks

bro forgot Friendster

It's getting boring to me 🚮

I think you're delusional if you think AR/VR is going to take over. Ordinary people don't like it.

Better question is: what happened to your face?

Nice accent for an asian