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- other (please specify in post)
I donât think of Forumosa as âsocial media.â Am I wrong? This feels more like an old fashioned forum or bulletin board as existed before facebook and myspace.
That would make a great topic for a thread!
Is forumosa a form of social media?
Iâd love to read what people think.
Guy
I have it saved in my browser in a âsocial mediaâ folder that includes Facebook, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, and Academia. Iâm really only active on here, and I appreciate the social nature of my anonymous posting here.
Anti-social social media
I thought it was therapeutic media.
Mostly yes. One key difference however is that forumosa doesnât make much use of algorithms: you just see the newest posts (or donât, depending on filters).
And thank goodness. Itâs why I like this site, and why I still use RSS feeds, and why I use a Twitter app (Twitterific) that shows me only who I follow, in order of tweets. Forumosaâs option of âsee everything youâve signed up for, and nothing else, in time orderâ has become unusual and I suppose unfashionable.
These days when people analyze social media, a lot of what theyâre talking about is âThe Algorithmâ and virality and whatâs promoted or demoted on feeds. And forumosa doesnât have that, or at least not in the same way.
Itâs basically the same as reddit but smaller form. So technically yes?
Yeah Facebook massively diminished in value to me when it stopped allowing me to see a real time feed. Now it feeds me what it thinks I need to see.
Fixed that for ya
I answered yes without hesitation.
Of course itâs very social.
Itâs bingo night in Miramichi.
Yes thatâs what I was thinking of. Thank you for describing this.
I agree, this is what turns me away from Facebook. I see no utility in having an algorithm feeding me random junk.
I only use Facebook for the following:
(1) I belong to a couple of private, closed groups for a specific professional niche. Those groups include long ongoing discussions of specific professional issues. (We treat it more like a forum.)
And,
(2) Keeping in touch with Taiwanese family who are all on Facebook. Theyâre all on the LINE app too but I donât want that app blowing up my phone with group chats.
Arent all forums/message boards social media? Just cause myspace, twitter, facebook etc stole the spotlight doeant mean they invented the social digital public discussion space. If anything, facebook is less social media han here and more social narcissist.
Not everyone on FB is a narcissist. I mean I am, did you see my rehabbed chairs? Noice!
Reddit isnât social media either.
Either a narcissist or using it business?
If youâre talking about influencers or entrepreneurs Iâd still say theyâre a bit narcissistic. Even the guy who canned bacon then ate uncooked with a fork months later.but that maybe was on YT.
Can you show us a red spot that hurts on your toe while sipping a cocktail on the beach during vaction and worried about pepole not getting vaccines because you know the truth? Oh pretty please. I want to know more. Photograph all of it!
Oh and between toe photoshoots, please inform the world what your kids and/or cat/dog did that was oh so silly.
I dont like facebook. If it wasnt for family and work, i wouldnt be there at all. I reluctantly fell in love with line. Its private at least. Only the government sees it haha
I wonder how much pollution is caused by such activity. They talk about bitcoin power usage, surely posts like this end up being magnitudes larger than bitcoin mining.