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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)

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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The thing that threw me off Facebook was the 2016 election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, even though I ran a popular meme page. I thought I found a sanctuary on Reddit, but looking back everything major on it was shilled to advertise or sow political discord. I thought Google Plus had a lot of potential, but nobody I knew would join and y’know, Google’s privacy record.

[–] HerbalGamer 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obligatory Google+ throwback

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that - I hadn't seen it before! (My 1 in 10,000 day!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

By the time Google+ rolled around, it had become clear that any social media owned by a big tech giant would suck after a while, and anything experimental released by Google would be killed after a while, so why invest in it?