What I’d like in social media

[cjsmith]

I’m realizing this morning that social media isn’t social. It’s news, or at least the best most of us get for news. (And a poor and unreputable aggregator it is, but that’s another topic.)

What I miss most about social media of days gone by is social contact. There aren’t places like that now. Does anyone even have time for that?

Comments

[cjsmith]

I miss LiveJournal and to some extent even Usenet. I think I miss what FB used to be, maybe seven-eight-nine years ago.

I agree that there are some people who seem to have social contact even on a social-contact-hostile platform like FB, and DING DING DING you’ve hit the nail on the head: those are people who are cared about by others and valued by others in ways I will never be. And I’m sorry to hear you feel you are in this category as well. It’s a big pile of no fun.