I'm not the only one. I didn't quit because I hated them or because it invaded my privacy (after all I was using it and gave away my data because I wanted to)
I quit because they are boring, content and people are boring. I'm 30 now and before I had a group of friends with similar interests: high school and college. I was meeting new people with also similar interests so they were posting what was interesting to me and vice versa.
It was fun to be on FB, IG and such. But now when I lost touch with 99% of people it got boring. Some of them post pics of their kids, some of their job and so on. I don't care, I can't relate to that. I don't even talk to 99% of the people, so it turned into stalking each other.
Also following celebrities is not interesting to me, they live in totally different dimension. I feel like my "online social life" is dead.
Please don't shit post on Hacker News. We all need to make an effort to maintain the quality on this site and not turn it into Reddit
You're posting here though? Hackernews is definitely a social site.
I agree, TikTok is the only platform that has maintained my interest to some degree because of the novelty of the content (built for discovery). But Twitter, FB, etc are the same old boring news cycles (even worse, sometimes reflexive topics like the popularization of The Current Thing meme, which is just a meta-news cycle but a news cycle all the same). I visit a few particular subreddits to keep up with stuff I care about but generally just socialize with my friends privately.
Fwiw, the platforms are aware of this shift (people shifting to preferring private content), and its behind a lot of changes like Instagram’s. But social media as we knew it (big public info dumps) were likely in an “attention bubble” over the past 15 years because of their sheer novelty.
You'll be back on those platforms soon enough. That's the pattern.
Same here, for about two years now. I'm just not interested at all anymore and my "online social life" used to be my main concern. Now I have a Slack with a couple of friends and once in a while I look at Twitter while in the bathroom.
I just make new accounts to reset the recommendation engine and try to follow only my latest interests. Still it becomes boring too fast. Everyone is trying to sell you something. Very few genuine content creators out there.
I quit Hacker News and other social sites They became boring
I'm not the only one. I didn't quit because I hated them or because it invaded my privacy (after all I was using it and gave away my data because I wanted to)
I quit because they are boring, content and people are boring. I'm 30 now and before I had a group of friends with similar interests: programming and technology. I was meeting new people with also similar interests so they were posting what was interesting to me and vice versa.
It was fun to be on Hacker News and such. But now when I lost touch with 99% of people it got boring. Some of them post about their new JS tool, some of their job and so on. I don't care, I can't relate to that. I don't even talk to 99% of the people, so it turned into stalking each other.
Also following funders is not interesting to me, they live in totally different dimension. I feel like my "online social life" is dead.