2k20 worst social media platform (facebook, twitter, instagram)

gotta go w Facebook. outside of Fox I suspect it’s had the biggest influence on turning aging whites’ brains into spoiled mayonnaise

yeah agree

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

41strange got suspended?! wtf

Funnily enough, I was just looking at Facebook and noticed that one of my friends was talking to one of his (FB) friends, who happened to be Graham Lewis of Wire, who seems to post on FB all the time - he's the right age group apparently. Should I hate, or have mixed feelings about, Facebook now for keeping Graham Lewis (and Colin Newman, he's on there too) from posting on ILX?

Maybe its a perception of being way more public here? Which would be right? One can filter and lock and so on on FB at least. I mean I spent 6 months talking on the regular to Ian Crause a few years back on FB/email, but he almost never showed up here.

I haven't updated WhatsApp in ages, and now I've got a new phone so everything's installing again, and it's now 'WhatsApp Messenger' 'from Facebook' - was it always like this and/or has anything changed? Old news articles say Facebook wants to merge WhatsApp & FB Messenger, and I hate FB Messenger with the passion of a thousand firey suns, so would like to know before I install WA if it's gone to shit.

I'm getting tired of seeing people I like on twitter seeming to seriously advocate murder and other extremely violent solutions. Most of the time I imagine they were just extremely angry and wouldn't stick to it if you asked about it seriously but then there's all these "not even joking" tweets. For fucks sake.

Losing respect for almost everyone but still need to get along.

Moving the Overton on choppy bois might be the only good sociological effect of twitter.

otm

Say what you like about Instagram, at least no-one's commandeered it to encourage genocide (unless you're counting Fyre Festival).

I should maybe check more often if these people delete those tweets later on, but I never see anyone apologize.

Also: massive sweeping statements about groups of people that have nothing to do with any serious thinking about privilege.

Very few people seem to have learned that "it's just a joke" shouldn't fly anymore.

people shouldn't joke about having tory scum executed like vermin, it's a serious business is liquidating scum of the earth!

liquidate power, not voters tbh

I've said "they probably don't mean that and are probably nice" too many times for people in my social circles. Benefit of the doubt is important but I don't know why I gave it to strangers so often.

have concluded social media was invented by harry harlow

my mum insists on referring to video conference calls, to which she has recently been exposed by me and my brothers, as social media. i mean i can see the logic, but “i know people complain about social media but i think it’s *wonderful*” takes some unpicking.

Why would anyone apologize for joking (“joking”) about guillotining billionaires?

Too much violent fantasies give a sense that any real change is hopeless and we're reduced to childishness that won't gain us any advantage, might turn lots of people away. Comes across creepy too. Joking about executing the royal family might have been funny for a moment but when it persists it's just sounds the joker has a serious problem.

I'm someone who regularly fantasizes about taking a hot bath affixed to the top of the world's slowest steamroller, everyone I dislike is tied down in front of the steamroller and I can listen to the music of them being turned to mush and the screams of the hundreds who are ahead.
But I try not to and I know it's not good for me.

...

I also have an unhealthy fixation with kicking Family Guy fans out windows and shutting down Marvel and DC and jerking off while everyone affected cries. These are the less political ones.

twitter is bad now that everyones on it 24/7

I'm someone who regularly fantasizes about taking a hot bath affixed to the top of the world's slowest steamroller, everyone I dislike is tied down in front of the steamroller and I can listen to the music of them being turned to mush and the screams of the hundreds who are ahead.

that sounds like a 'you' problem rather than something afflicting the person with a guillotine avatar

I'm sure there's all sorts of violent fantasies for all sorts of angry people.

milo you’re almost as much of an asshole as me, kudos

ugh I regret that sorry.

Most people don’t have extremely detailed violent fantasies, even people who joke about putting Jeff Bezos’s head on a pike outside the city gates.

online: guillotines!! eat the rich!
offline: plain cheeseburger no onions please. afraid to pee in the shower

— @rogerclark (@rogerclark) December 19, 2017

Peeing in the shower does not feel good, the lack of contrast between my urine and the water is unsettling.

I'll say it again: it's amazing how poor twitter and instagram are for browsing. I'm irritated within a short time of being there.

great revive

ffs

The pictures on the instagram dashboard are way too big and the list of people you follow is this silly little list when a whole page would have worked better.

do you pee in the shower on desktop, or mobile?

sorry, i meant browse ig and twitter

instagram desktop is useless, it seems fine on a phone

I also used it on a tablet (which uses mobile mode) and I didn't like it but maybe it's great on an actual phone.

one of the worst things now is people who performatively quit facebook for political or privacy reasons then remain on instagram (think emoji)

then proceed to shit up instagram with screenshots of the same shit they used to post on facebook on their notes app

and none of them seem to have any awareness that instagram is owned by facebook

yep!

otm but also

one of the worst things now is people who performatively quit facebook for political or privacy reasons then remain on instagram (think emoji)

then proceed to shit up instagram with screenshots of the same shit they used to post on facebook on their notes app

and none of them seem to have any awareness that instagram is owned by facebook

...And then rejoin soon after.

I deactivated my Facebook account July 1. Should I go back August 1?

— burning ambulance (@burn_amb) July 27, 2020

Instagram “Reels” is pretty bleak. If i wanted a subscription to maxim magazine i would have ordered one back when that still existed.

it still does: https://www.simplecirc.com/subscribe/maxim/I9AA01

sincerely the worst thing ive ever seen pic.twitter.com/O1HRvfVFSK

— jack wagner (@jackdwagner) September 6, 2020

lol treesh

the annoying thing, so much content was already being imported from TikTok and showing up in the regular search feed; i'll be glad if all the strip teases just get moved to Reels

xp oof i almost wanna believe that TikTok house video is parody

BREAKING: In a secret 2019 meeting, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly struck an agreement with Jared Kushner that Facebook would not fact-check political speech during the 2020 election — in exchange, the Trump administration would avoid significantly regulating Facebook. (per @chafkin)

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) September 20, 2021

Mildly terrifying

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2021/08/05/cameron-herrin-went-to-prison-for-a-tampa-crash-were-the-tweets-that-followed-real/

https://www.politicalorphans.com/something-weird-is-happening-on-facebook/

^That’s the best article I’ve seen on this phenomenon yet. Nice find.

yeah I posted it here but the more the better

Envy is one of those unavoidable human traits I nevertheless consciously try to avoid. I don't find it useful, productive or endearing to be envious of people or to compare myself to others: We all walk our own paths, right? We all have our good and bad days, our pros and cons. If someone is doing well for themselves and it doesn't affect my own or anyone else's wellbeing, then why should I feel anything but gladness and pride for them?

But since I've started to promote nights again, I've had to use Instagram a lot more. I'm telling you, it takes only about five minutes of scrolling before I start to feel preternaturally low about myself and, I dare say, a small amount of resentment towards the people making me feel this way.

It's almost... as if... social media is an opiate designed to make people feel tremendously insecure about themselves while also hooking them in like a drug. Now there's an original thought.

I've recently been on Twitter a bit too and man, that place doesn't really make me feel 'envious' in the same way but it does make me feel like I ought to have strong opinions on topics and matters I otherwise wouldn't necessarily consider. And then presently I feel like less of a person because I haven't got a hot take about the new Ghostbusters movie, or what some judge in Texas has decreed, or what some rightwing loudmouth has to say about gender pronouns. It's a bombardment of information and opinions and arguments and it makes the world seem even more bonkers and noisy and horrid than it already is. It makes me feel small, worthless, clueless: less of a person for not getting stuck into these endless discussions.

This might sound strange coming from someone who has spent more than half his life on ILX and is an obsessive Facebooker. But on those platforms I don't really get these feelings of self-loathing, envy, or a push-pull desire to participate in a dog-race I'll never win.

I don't personally understand why someone would leave Facebook but stay on Instagram. Whatever floats your boat ofc, but for all its faults, with FB I feel like I'm in a fairly safe, relatively private space where I talk just to people I know or visit groups that discuss topics I'm interested in; whereas I feel like the other two big platforms seem to be more about surreptitious self promotion: With Insta it's about what a wonderful life you live, Twitter it's how clever and informed you are. Those two seem to be about guerilla oneupmanship, and that's why I can't really enjoy them too much

Art instagram is pretty great. Follow a shitload of cartoonists imo

I’m not on Twitter much and Facebook not at all, but insta is great if you have (or stumble upon) niche interests, like miniatures, or Japanese storefront photography, or pixel art, and so on.