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Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 5:36 pm
by Dual
I've found linked in useful in the past to find employment. I don't go on it anymore than that though - there's way too many Barry Homeowners on that platform.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 6:35 pm
by Jam-Master Jay
Hard choice. Facebook and Twitter have allowed so much gooseberry fool to spread through their platforms that both deserve to be wiped from existence.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 6:55 pm
by 7256930752
I'll be honest, I have never had an issue with social media. Facebook is essentially a feed of people I have spoken to for 15 years, I never really understood what to do with Twitter and I like Instagram.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 7:01 pm
by Errkal
Jam-Master Jay wrote:Hard choice. Facebook and Twitter have allowed so much gooseberry fool to spread through their platforms that both deserve to be wiped from existence.
Twitter at least seems to be starting to tackle it with banning political ads and what have you.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 7:49 pm
by Vermilion
Jenuall wrote:Tik Tok
...on the clock, but the party don't stop, no...
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 7:54 pm
by Corazon de Leon
Tik Tok seems inoffensive enough at the moment, certainly not troubling the Facebook/Twitter cesspit.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 8:02 pm
by Green Gecko
Every single time a new social media platform takes off I get anxiety that I've not got a strategy for it.
There's too many of these strawberry floating things. I'm focusing on Instagram.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 8:04 pm
by Dual
Just imagine if Trump was banned from Twitter. Imagine how much better the world would be.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 8:50 pm
by floydfreak
Facebook especially when its those "please forward this message for good will etc" or some other crap
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:02 pm
by Mafro
TikTok is great but it'll definitely go over a lot of people's heads here.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:21 pm
by Dual
Isn't TikTok owned by the Communist Party of China?
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:22 pm
by Hypes
Twitter
The world would be so much better off without it. Everyone thinks they have something worth saying and their opinion is valid, and it's responsible for mass proliferation of fake news and bots. At least with Facebook you're usually limited to family and friends and racists can just live in their own groups and mostly be ignored. Twitter can be just toxic, trends can strawberry float off and media should stop using it and inflating its importance.
Them again it does deliver the official press releases of the US President
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:30 pm
by Tomous
Dual wrote:Isn't TikTok owned by the Communist Party of China?
I think it’s a privately owned company in China technically albeit one that does exactly what the Chinese government ask of it.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:51 pm
by OrangeRKN
Victor Mildew wrote:In a room 101 type scenario, you get to go full Thanos and snap a social media platform from existence.
Now I know what happened to tumblr
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:51 pm
by Mafro
Lotus wrote:Twitter.
I'm baffled as to how it's become so embedded in society. Seems to be full of absolute cretins, it spreads misinformation, gives a platform to utter morons, its layout and design is gooseberry fool, and I rarely see anything funny, interesting, or useful on there that can't be found elsewhere already. I also hate the effect it's had on news and journalism: tweets from random plebs seemingly being the basis for news articles (i.e. "social media is saying..."), tweets being embedded in articles instead of the journalist doing actual work themselves, and journalists and politicians using it as a platform for spreading news/shite. Plus all the hashtag bollocks.
Of course other social media platforms have their issues, but Twitter seems like the worse. Feels like it disappearing would do more good than harm.
You could just easily replace Twitter with Facebook and your post would basically be the same btw. And if you want to talk about effects on news and journalism, Facebook royally strawberry floated plenty of media outlets that went for the whole "pivot to video" boom by massively inflating the viewing figures on their videos to the point where it caused layoffs or sites shutting down completely.
The spread of misinformation is also arguably worse on Facebook due to the age range of its users being much wider resulting in more usage from older generations who are much more susceptible to fake news nonsense.
And in terms of layout and design it's objectively one of the worst I use.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:53 pm
by Ironhide
OrangeRKN wrote:Victor Mildew wrote:In a room 101 type scenario, you get to go full Thanos and snap a social media platform from existence.
Now I know what happened to tumblr
Removing the porn killed tumblr.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 11:21 pm
by RichardUK
Mafro wrote:TikTok is great but it'll definitely go over a lot of people's heads here.
TikTok is a nightmare, I don’t really use social media apart from Instagram that I spend about 15 mins a day on but TikTok is so addictive watching what is mostly random dancing or getting in to arguments with people over Northern Ireland, looking on my screen time it’s my fourth most used app
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 12:34 am
by Peter Crisp
Green Gecko wrote:Every single time a new social media platform takes off I get anxiety that I've not got a strategy for it.
There's too many of these strawberry floating things. I'm focusing on Instagram.
Everyone knows AOL is about to make a massive comeback.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 1:04 am
by Lagamorph
Definitely Facebook given the massive contribution it's had to spreading shite like Anti-Vax, Brexit/Leave falsehoods, 5G/Covid conspiracies, etc.
Re: You can push a button and wipe one social media platform from existence - which do you choose?
Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 3:35 pm
by Victor Mildew
Seems we should delete Facebook then.
Karl - please can you action this and keep us updated on the progress of deleting Facebook.
Kind regards,
The forum.