Evolution of social media

This is a very, difficult question
The real internet started around 1997, the most social media users are born around that time.

And the popular ones (facebook,instagram,youtube,twitter,discord,reddit,...)
Are changing their functions, new polls, more people.

Like the last time, Instagram wanted you to pay (US) for some videos to watch.
I know that it's an endless conversation and all opinions are different.
Youtube now with the double ads and the massive new youtubers and the old ones are being forgotten (including me)
Facebook having errors
World leaders rather going on twitter than on the news and so on.

My clearest question is, what do you think of technology now?
The hacking, cybercriminality, games, account making, the more and more ads, the changing of social media functions. Google is one of the most trusted sources and media ever created now, including robots, sites and the traditional newspapers.
Real television services (not netflix, amazon prime,...) are used fewer as I see from my perspective.
Racism seems to spread again slowly, and people say there will be World War III.

Coronavirus makes us stay home, what is quite normal now for people, now you can see, that you can't trust people as much as you think. Philosophy is the best explanation of expression,but expression can only be spread by action

I think, that others are trying to be better than others for concurrency, which is keeping getting bigger, and is very difficult for the people that are REALLY enjoying of what you made

MKPC is perfect, not too much changes, and has the functions of what it means

Opinions?

I'm not agaisnt technology, but, in my opinion, yes, this is going too far now. I can't watch a video without ads come in important moments (even after 1 MINUTE !!!! ) Like we see in April 2021, there are toxic, dangerous and racist people who didn't stop makes communities trouble.

And I'll talk about YouTube comments.
You know, all those forums have some rules, for avoid problems.
Then YouTube have not.
After *you know who*'s ban, I get harassed on YouTube. I just posted a comment where I explain I get intimidated on MKPC, and then this happened.
An user named "faker sonic" was very toxic and call the creppy sonic thingy "LELY'S FACE", happily the comment got deleted. Then I had some comments like "Lely is too much for me", "lely is saying that" "lely please die" I even have dead threatments.
I still have, in my school, racist, homophobic people...

Technology is good, but there's always, (like in everything) people for making us trouble.

I have to debate you on this one. Sure YouTube comments can be bad, but your situation sounds personal. Also just ignore the comments. Another thing is that homophobes existed way before my grandpa was born considering it is a sin to be gay, which I don't want to bring religion into this so I will stop there, racist people are raised by more racist people and you can't really change that. Racists and Homophobes existed way before the internet.

Note: I'm not trying to be rude in any way.

I agree with you, but let's be honest : for those kinds of hating persons, that's currently the RISE.

Not really much we can do about it though

I agree with you, but thi is just a reaction topic and not a topic to say what we can do for this.

Might as well provide my two cents on this

Perhaps earlier but I wasn't alive to see it.


All of those social media platforms have essentially plateaued in registered user count besides maybe Discord (which was designed more as a competitor to IM platforms, mainly Skype and TeamSpeak). Their time in the limelight is essentially up, they either have to adapt to the times or die trying. Hence everyone (mainly Discord and Twitter dot com) jumping on the sinking NFT ship, Youtube shamelessly aping TikTok's style of videos (which itself was a variation of Vine's content, which was essentially the wacky humor of early 2010's Youtube compressed into 6 second long clips. It all comes full circle), and the overall increase in advertisement on all platforms (Please download AdBlockPlus on your computer). I'd say it's become less genuine but I'd really say none of these platforms (besides Discord pre-covid) were all that genuine to begin with. Such is the evolution of the internet.


I haven't seen this roll out, at least where I'm based out of. Not like I'd ever pay for it but I'd imagine a lot of people will. There's definitely more opportunity to make money on the internet than there was 10 years ago, not even just creating content but just reacting to other people's content, a trend which I will never understand.


People are fickle. The internet enables their fickleness. There are certainly Youtubers that have transcended time to keep putting out moderately popular content well after their heyday (Cinemassacre is probably the first one to come to my mind), but the Youtube darlings of 10 years ago (Smosh, nigahiga, JackSepticEye, GoodMythicalMorning, Daneboe, etc) have largely faded from the public eye, as I'd imagine today's Youtube darlings will also largely fade from the public eye within 10 years. Such is how the internet works.


It's a quick and easy way to reach the people for them to virtue signal most effectively and gauge support in real time. Though knowing Twitter dot com that support will be negligible at best.


There's definitely a mix of good and bad in it compared to where it was 10 years ago. I do kinda miss that early Web 2.0 experience but that's just me with the rose-tinted glasses on. The internet is now no longer the Wild West that (according to my parents) was filled with child predators and scammers, it's now the definitive place to get news, network with people, research data, and really whatever the fuck you want to do. Content creator is a viable career for the short-term if you can successfully "game the algorithm". Unfortunately I think with the successful proliferation of the internet into the mainstream as the later Millennials and early Gen Z come of age, so to did that mysteriousness go with it. Content generally feels less authentic as more people try to get their 15 minutes of fame, to the point where people can and will make up stories to push their personal agenda. There's a lot more predictability to the content now and overall the web has gotten more hostile, especially on sites like Twitter dot com. I think the death of it had to be the successful proliferation of politics into every sphere of the internet circa 2016. Now, in the words of EmpLemon, "if you don't spread your platform to spread awareness about John C. Calhoun's toenail, then you don't care about the world's problems." It's fucking inescapable. To all those who are young enough (or have good enough parents) to not have social media accounts yet. Don't get them. They're really not worth the trouble.


Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes. Repetition legitimizes.


Legacy media services were unable to compete with the internet in terms of both cost and service provided. So they're largely dying out.


I've elaborated on the political climate on the internet...as for World War III, in the words of Albert Einstein, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”


This, unfortunately, is the new normal. Things are never going to go back to the way they were, and if they are it's not happening in my lifetime. The lockdowns have no reason to end, not in the eyes of those tied to the CDC and Pfizer. They've pretty much established their control of every aspect of public life early on when lockdowns started raining down, and as the virus mutates to grow more contagious and less severe, people will see the number of cases and demand to stay home. I know people who have pretty much stopped the clock in March 2020. Maybe it's worth it to them, but not to me. The same goes for vaccine mandates, they're never going away (I do find it slightly amusing that in certain parts of the US you need to show proof of vaccination to eat at an Applebees, but you don't need a form of ID to vote. Go figure.), and if anything I see them cracking down on said mandates, and thus leading to more political polarization with the issue. Both sides: vaccinated and unvaccinated, at this point are waiting for the other to start dropping dead on the streets.


The internet makes it easier than ever to show your support towards an often popular cause nearly instantly to hundreds of thousands of people...without actually doing anything to further the cause. This is called virtue signalling. With the rise of politics on the internet, so to that has come into vogue. I've talked about this with regards to popularity earlier, so I'll cut it here.


Honestly the message forum is a dying breed and I love them to death. Changing this would be a disservice to its users. Reddit still has some aspects of it but more resembles your other social media platforms, and really the only "platform" in the mainstream that resembles the message forums of old would be 4chan, a site so contaminated by the rest of the internet that it's not even worth visiting unless you're there for porn.


Honestly this was a great question to ask, I've seen the internet grow as I did, and I guess now after wringing out every last dopamine neurotransmitter I have for it, I can finally realize what's changed for the good and for the bad, or even what's stayed the same.
Don't forget, you're here forever.

Why discuss or complain about the technological evolution? It’s inevitable. So far, we can observe that social media is part of the technological evolution as well, and people enjoy it. Moreover, they are looking for an even deeper integration which is proved by the high interest in Metaverse. What I find scary is the lack of protection of our personal data. Especially people using shading services to increase their number of followers. I have to admit I used one myself (https://1394ta.org/buy-instagram-followers), but I was sure that my personal data was secure and won’t be used for any other purposes.

Why revive old topics?

I am sure that the evolution of social networks has not yet stopped, as periodically, social networks are optimized, and new functions are added. Social media has become an integral part of many people's lives today. Therefore, it is a great way to make money. I have been running my YouTube channel for two years and have 100 thousand subscribers. I have no team because I make content by myself. To create an attractive thumbnail, I use create.vista.com; it's a very convenient service. An attractive thumbnail attracts many viewers.

Haven't you seen what Nudge said ? Please don't revive old topics