I’m not talking about you, dear fedizens Fedizens are built differently :p

normie social media; fb, instagram, linkedin etc

I mean business in a loose sense of the word, but not always to generate a profit.

Ex personal branding - marketting yourself a defacto product. Ex; linkedin as a whole. Instagram/fb being the pinnacles of a persons existence, being fundamentally ‘look at how cool i am’.

I’m not counting IM messenger programs like discord or matrix or sms as social medias or phone apps like the 1900s era telephone. Obv i message/call my mom a lot. Pseudo/Anonymous social medias like reddit/4chan etc are also different that say facebook, and i’m not talking about them either.

I’ve noticed that when trying to use social media for networking irl, it’s god awful for that. But when i’m using it for business/marketing, it goes better.

    • Gaywallet (they/it)
      4•2 years ago

      I know a lot of very normal people who I keep in touch with via instagram, snapchat, etc. (I’m on Facebook but I only really check it occasionally because my Mom is on it) Most people aren’t using those to show off ‘look at how cool I am’, more like, here’s what I’m doing right now. Unless someone is attempting to get thousands of followers so they can monetize what they do, it’s generally just targeted towards some kind of hobby or interest they have, some general trends like taking pictures of the food you got if it’s plated well, or venting about problems.

      There’s a decent amount of platforms which are social media adjacent which facilitate chatting like facebook/IG messenger, discord, etc. where it’s a bit more obvious it’s just about keeping up the smaller online social circles that you participate in or targeted small communities.

      Linkedin is absolutely just for business though, no argument there.