Comment on I am indeed old
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
why would this be a symbol of old age?
i feel like it’s actually just an incestuous mix of thinking you are better than tiktok but still holding onto an immature version of yourself by being on instagram.
maybe i just see social media use as an inherently immature thing? (including lemmy)
idk, is this a wrong opinion to hold?
Nah, I’d say the same. Never understood this meme-craze. Especially the silly trend to make videos even shorter and shorter for all the tiny-attention-spans that doom-scroll mediocre (at best) content that is purely done to farm clicks.
Let alone the privacy-aspect of those grotesque social-medias. Except lemmy though. And reddit had its moments of good talks too.
And I’m old enough to miss IRC 😁
I think social media can be used for a large variety of things. Many important movements (50501 for a current example) greatly rely on social media to mobilize folks.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Email is a social media and it’s very grown up.
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
i guess its a media that is intended for social use, but i feel thays similar to calling a cooked meal “processed food”. like yeah technically correct (best kind), but also defying the indended meaning when most people use the term.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
How would you define social media to exclude email?
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I’m not them but for me “social media” in the colloquial use has some sort of discoverability and some functionality to put out a piece of media publically in a way that can then be discovered. (Note that this isn’t my entire definition, just the part where I feel email is disqualified.)
For emails you need external services to find, subscribe and/or manage things such as mailinglists to sorta approach this behavior.