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I could never get Twitter. I remember friends being excited by it, but to me it was just adding short text to a page that probably nobody is going to see anyway. Then Instagram - I couldn't get that either. I put my photos up and what? I could do that on a forum with people with common interest. Eventually forums got closed so I realised you can add a # with the topic you photos / videos are about. But this is so limited and there is no guarantee people who are interested in it are actually going to see (because algo won't show them). Then I installed Tik Tok to see what's the fuss about. So it's clearly aimed at people with short attention span. It was entertaining, but you can quickly catch the patterns of a typical Tik Tok video and it becomes boring. Basically the same themes just different people, locations and music. I couldn't watch that. Then Facebook filled the niche of forums with their groups, but this is a dumpster fire - they hide comments, posts are not coming up chronologically and so on. These platforms are not for you to learn anything or enterntain you, they just want your money.


Facebook was just a way to talk to your friends and replaced Yahoo! Messenger, except that you could find new friends your age in your area as well. This worked because the rest of society wasn't aware of Facebook. LinkedIn might be a better candidate for a personal directory.

Twitter and Instagram are both ways to connect to people you do not know, but the former is genuinely about finding people to which you share some interest, whereas the former is still mostly about adding friends that you already know. Instagram replaced most of the functions of Facebook that I described in the first paragraph.

TikTok is basically the video version of Twitter with a good algorithm that finds new content you might like.




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