People were excited about just communicating, and they actually told you shit. Not just what they had for lunch, but occasionally interesting stories about things that were happening to them. They started tweets with all caps like complete n00bs, because they were complete n00bs—we all were.
These days? Public updates on Twitter and Facebook (by which I mean comments that aren't back-and-forth between friends) have "matured" (or maybe the users I follow have "matured") to the point where all I ever see is:
- self-promotion/ingratiation
- cause-promotion, and
- bitching.
Christ it's boring. Maybe I need to move to a new social media platform to watch the collective userbase collectively work out wtf they're supposed to be doing all over again.
In the meantime, if you're sick of it too, I encourage you to follow these independently entertaining tweeters:
Also, you can join me in looking heartily forward to the next exciting wave of actually interesting content in the d/evolution of social media. I don't care what form it takes, as long as it moves beyond the three points elucidated above.
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