Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
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A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    713·
    6 months ago

    I think that number will grow as Twitter continues to decay. People clinging to the dead corpse is pretty cringe when it comes to Twitter.

    Facebook is dead already I feel and most people I know using it are only in there for old people who can’t use anything else or for the marketplace. Under the same umbrella, instagram is dead unless you’re selling something.

    Forums like Reddit and lemmy I think will last the longest, but even then when the toxicity grows and transfers over from Reddit to here I probably will stop using it as much

    Also I say dead as in what it originally was has been lost in the wake of “influencers” and companies

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
      301·
      6 months ago

      It’s a shame, facebook used to be great for local stuff, but the algorithm seems to have killed that.

      Tried nextdoor but it’s mostly Karens.

      • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        6 months ago

        I got next door, but only care about it as far as looking out for potential missing pets. I live in a fairly red area, and everyone is middle-aged on there, and everything I saw was super conservative people, and some hate for anything mentioning the possibility of non straight people.

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          6 months ago

          Even in my very very blue area nextdoor is almost entirely crime posting and people posting doorbell cams of brown people on the sidewalk. It’s a complete wasteland.

        • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Pro tip, if there aren’t many “leads” (what nextdoor calls mods) in your area you can usually just e-mail them to volunteer and they will make you one.

        • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I’m just now reviewing ancient comments and replies of mine. If you haven’t found out already, think of a site that’s similar to Facebook, but instead of making “friends” as the big draw, it’s all about your neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. So it’s filled with people asking about where to find “cheap reliable (insert service here like landscaping, drywalling, etc)”, suspicious people seen around the place which another commenter mentioned, so given the very white, very Karen-like audience is probably just a notice that some racial minority person was here. Like I mentioned, lost pets are a common post, there was recent 2 different companies going around digging fiber lines for Internet service, and then the predictable “has anyone switched, how do you like it?” type posts that follow.

          A lot of these people don’t know each other, so their only common ground seems, at least where I am, to be mostly just where they physically live, and the fact that they all love Trump.

      • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        You can directly on it, but a lot of people push links to their own sites. Onlyfans and workout stuff seems to be everywhere

    • MountainGoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Facebook, for me and the people I know, has become a message board where I know all the players. I don’t friend people from school or work, but instead people from conventions and hobbies, of which Facebook groups I also belong to and interact.

    • Star@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Under the same umbrella, instagram is dead unless you’re selling something.

      Instagram is far from dead. It is quite popular in South Asia and actually the social media of choice for many teens.