Rick
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Doesn't feel much different to me than before, though I tend to be a social butterfly anyway and make acquaintences with some bajillions of people. Chances are you can six degrees of separation in some manner through me with someone at some point, probably. 
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Nanashi
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Originally posted by Sofi
i think it tends to commodify the users, reducing them to "brands". plus, algorithms generally exist to re-enforce status quos. i like forums b/c they don't necessarily do that & it's possible for communities to create their own.
I have a lot of trouble trying to word my thoughts on this, but yes!
It feels like one is not a person, one is a brand of product. People are what amounts to some sort of business interpretation of a person and it's made clear what is it for.
Interaction in these is social capital to generate traffic, reach. You promote your brand, where apparently "people caring about what you say" is a brand.
While simultaneously, it kinda cuts you off communication if you don't play by these rules.
On the other hand I don't want to say much because I rather always feel like it's just that I am missing something and simply isn't for me, since I keep seeing people casually talking seemingly fine.
Originally posted by 2Tie
over the past decade, it seems to me like it's shifted from finding communities and gaining a few close friends, to these big social networks where it's all about gathering large amounts of acquaintances....
On forums, by their relatively non-timed nature, one's presence is freer to be constant and you can grow close to people by simply talking with them
Now you need to talk to and it's all more tied to time. So it's much harder to do that. |
