Are You Cut Out for Social Media?

Facebook is the CBS of social media

-John Lennon

a lot of gen xers of FB from my experince

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)

i mean typical gen x, even our social media is a boomer hand-me-down

From what I've seen Gen Alpha (those born after 2012) communicate with one another solely through gaming console chat

one of my best friends is 15 years younger than me and it's so weird looking at her statuses from like....middle school.

so glad this wasn't a thing when I was that age. back then, you wanted to talk trash, you had to download your Juno emails first and then upload your hate-filled responses.

When I was that age we had to chisel messages on stone tablets and have them delivered by pterodactyl.

Then later we got cuneiform on wax, that was a bit better.

(Actually what we did was have a really long phone cord so you could take the phone into your room.)

I visited my MySpace profile recently, it felt like that scene towards the end of inception where DiCaprio incepts to that crumbling memory city.

We created. We built the world for ourselves. We did that for years. We built our own world.

How long were you stuck there?

Mid 2005 to early 2006.

Jesus. How could you stand it?

It wasn’t so bad at first, feeling like gods.

lol

and to think MySpace actually gave you much more customization latitude

When I was that age we had to chisel messages on stone tablets and have them delivered by pterodactyl.

― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin)

when you think about it, wasn't the first usenet post really that complaint tablet to ea-nasir?

and to think MySpace actually gave you much more customization latitude

― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal)

super hot take here, corporations controlling the ways in which we use the internet to communicate is a bad thing

"ok, I used the internet! but i was only on the internet to find out how to get off"

heh-heh he said he wanted "to get off" (/beavis)

They told me 'Get on' and I got off. Ooooooooh Growing up.

I tried to sign up for Facebook recently (in order to send a message to a barber about arranging an appointment for a haircut)

Its impossible! Whenever I tried to sign up it immediately says "We've suspended your account 180 days left to appeal or we'll permanently disable your account", this is with completely new gmail account

I remembered I'd signed up a couple of years ago, and fished around to see what I'd signed up with. This one seemed to work but couldn't remember the password, did password recovery and got stuck at a "something went wrong" screen

I walked to the barbers and made the appointment in person instead. I am not cut out for social media

lots of businesses only have FB pages for information, so if you don't have social media, you essentially have to rely on third party information about them i.e. Yelp.

then you show up and they're closed because the third party site had the hours wrong

I use FB for restaurants and it's stunning how much they get incorrect sometimes. not only are the hours all wrong but they'll also have a screwed up menu (or one from 10 years ago), plus the wrong phone number. used to be restaurants often had their own website for this but everything's on social media instead these days. definitely feels like information online has gotten a lot less reliable over the last 10 years. oh well, I'm sure AI will fix it