https://blog.spacehey.comForum Topic created by KeikoKuphttps://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=827664https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=827664Social media has its perks.  You get to share and post thoughts and creations with the entire world at your fingertips giving you opportunities to meet new people that share the same interests as you, but with how big platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok ect.) are built, is has defeated that entire purpose. With short content being the main draw factor, the instant gratification, clout and ...Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:38:39 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=677600https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=677600Exactly my feelings, I just feel an immediate rejection towards it. This place feels so peaceful and comfy in comparison.Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:09:59 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=643455https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=643455Yes, and that's why I don't use them. Never have and never will. The only social media accounts I have out there are on this website and YouTube.Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:23:40 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=597027https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=597027oh it totally is the net is so numbers focused and almost everyone wants to be famous although i was'nt here for  the "good days" i've seen the slow removal of social features from the big site and the only thing we have left is a teeny tiny bio box that people just stuff with linksWed, 03 Jan 2024 14:06:23 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=567844https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=567844I think another thing that contributed to that that definitely hasn't helped is current social media is the personalization turning very limited, you can't really make your own space on the internet but rather have to express yourself and whatnot on a very limited format, essentially making it quite impersonal.Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:03:07 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=478067https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=478067It doesnt help that social media literally creates celebrities nowadays. Im glad ppl can make livings w online stuff but i find it disheartening that the internet is just seen as a cash cow now.Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:52:19 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=473337https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=473337CapitaliFri, 16 Jun 2023 17:24:57 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=409633https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=409633i feel very isolated on pretty much any social media that isn't dedicated to chat. even though you see tons of people. this doesn't explain it well, but they just don't feel real for some reasonSun, 26 Mar 2023 20:48:52 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=371571https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=371571Absolutely!  Making online friends in this age is almost awkward and you just feel annoying. Plus bots make it hard to gain friends on Instagram. I never used any other social media so I can't speak about that. But you really notice it on Instagram bc the focus is set far from friends.  Great post Wed, 25 Jan 2023 21:05:05 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=344506https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=344506Oh yeah definitely. I've made so many friends on Tumblr and absolutely none on TikTok, which I've been on for years, since musical.ly. It's so algorithm oriented that while showing you user created content, you forget that it's even a community at all.Mon, 05 Dec 2022 04:47:30 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=220215https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=220215Honestly speaking I do feel a General disconnection when it comes to modern social media, like is not as easy to just wanting to make friends with someone on twitter dms, and often they find most of them intruded which is understandable specially on twitter, almost everyone respects everyone's boundaries but even if you have made mutuals there, still does not guarantee you can talk to them on dms ...Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:29:55 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=175270https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=175270i kinda think so lol i feel like it promotes being terminally online i know a couple of people whove gone far down the twitter pipeline and its terrifying how people fight over literally nothing :pThu, 27 Jan 2022 01:55:01 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=170479https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=170479Anything with likes/upvotes tends to devolve into a bit of a mess. People care more about clout than... well, than the people. There's a dopamine high from the constant notifications, telling us about new followers and likes on our content. It incentivizes people to make things a very shallow popularity contest to chase the next high and get that dopamine reward. One example we all know and love i...Mon, 17 Jan 2022 01:35:56 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=137984https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=137984I think social media rewards people who say the most outlandish shit because it garners attention and engagement. It's not a great place to have good conversations if you are always trying to appeal to a certain crowdFri, 10 Dec 2021 18:00:52 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=115433https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=115433Instagram is actually pretty depressing I had to deactivate mine because I felt like my mental health was declining and I'm 26...I could only imagine what the younger generation must feel Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:16:49 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=110358https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=110358Tis like the old saying; " The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. "Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:42:38 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=98788https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=98788Calling it social media is almost a misnomer at this point.Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:48:07 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=98787https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=98787Calling it social media is almost a misnomer at this point.Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:47:09 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=92682https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=92682yes and no. pros: algorithms, despite their flaws, make it easier to find things that you'll like and make it easier to seek things out you never would've found yourself. this leads you to more likeminded people than you may have found before. social media encourages the "splintering" of culture into multiple groups, making there be less of an emphasis on a single "popular culture", putting cultur...Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:15:49 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=89784https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=89784 Yeah I totally agree. I think on most of the popular social media platforms these days the goal is popularity rather than connection with other people. I used to spend a lot of time on instagram and I tried to get more popular on an art account (thought it would make me actually like what I made if enough other people did) and usually my interactions with people was kind of hollow. Like at best I...Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:44:32 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=89447https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=89447Oof, yeah I really feel for artists. It seems like twitter and instagram in particular have y'all over a barrel. I hope something changes soon, because most of the indie alternative I see geared toward art don't have much in the way of getting your work in front of an audience/client base and are more geared around artists networking amongst themselves. That's fine for hobbyists like me, but it's ...Mon, 15 Nov 2021 04:22:26 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=89363https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=89363i think making friends in person is easier.. when i was like 17 on tumblr it thought it was important to make friends onlineMon, 15 Nov 2021 04:07:22 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=88426https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=88426Honestly even as someone who relies on social media to get business (I'm a freelance illustrator) I try to only use it to post art and log off, because if I stay on it long I feel my mental health declining.Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:41:42 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=86962https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=86962I agree. People are more focused on getting content out that will be popular more than anything. I understand social media is a business/job for some. But it's like social media platforms cater to the business part of it more than the social part, so the only thing that matters is how good you are doing on a metric/algorithm system.  Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:58:03 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=86867https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=86867Oh, I think it's absolutely harder to talk casually on modern socials. The metrics discourage people with "small" accounts until they give up talking or sharing. That 1 like and 0 shares is essentially telling them "shut up, nobody cares," even if a lot of the time it's just that the site's algorithm is making it so hardly anyone can see the posts in the first place. On the other end of the scale,...Sun, 14 Nov 2021 19:39:34 +0000