If you could would you do way with social media as we know it?

do away with* ugh

does ilx count as social media for the purposes of this poll

no i was not considering message boards

in that case, voting 'no'

lol

No, but if you'd framed the poll as which of the above listed we could do away with as well as freeing up the space and shoes used up by the ppl heavily invested in it then two billion Twitter users could die roaring for my part

on the one hand, social media usage has negatively impacted my anxiety for a variety of reasons.

on the other, I had a few relationships start using social media (i.e. someone joining me for an open invite, or starting a convo which gave me the courage to approach them IRL).

so idk

social media is lulZ

tbh I loved FB until it basically turned into:

1) people posting political links without reading them and then poster's friends waging ad hom war on each other in the comments sections
2) incessant GIF meme sharing

I miss the days where you couldn't even comment on FB statuses

Yes. My internet use is compulsive and these sites are bad for me. I try to keep them blocked in my hosts file.

you can't stop the global telepathy

"Yes" or "No" would be a hard call. I'd revamp Facebook but keep it, get rid of Twitter, Instagram I have no involvement with. You're not including YouTube, right? Whether that's thought of as social media seems to vary. I think YouTube's possibly the best thing the internet ever came up with.

as long as we can get ride of youtube comment section it can stay

replace FB with CB radio imo, at least then you can tell if your potential stalker is a loud breather.

right now i'd say yes. much as i love facebook

I find it hard to block Youtube because of the endless amounts of music, but it's an evil life-destroyer also.

I think it's fair to say that social media has had a net negative impact on my own life, and possibly on the world as a whole? I'm pretty much out of it altogether aside from reading tweets people link to and occasionally wishing someone happy birthday on FB. I guess other people get something out of it.

To expand, social media has been a bane because of the heightened expectations and anxiety it generates (also add texting to the pile) when I already have issues managing heightened expectations and anxiety, and its emphasis on ephemeral brevity seems almost...nihilistic? Message boards are cool. I kinda miss LiveJournal.

http://socialmediarevolver.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/instain-babby.jpg

Yes, absolutely. I don't really use any of 'em.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bivsP_h6l0s

Yes.

As a facebook, twitter, & instagram refusenik, I have no trouble voting yes. The news cycle might slow down from almost instantaneous to merely head-spinningly fast, but that seems more like a bonus than a drawback.

Nah

sure

I've been mulling over zeroing out and/or deleting everything on social media and I finally decided to do it. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, etc. all gone.

taking awhile for Twitter, but it's next.

Please don't take away soundcloud!

I don't know too much about the others but i see a lot of people using Facebook on the bus. It doesn't look much fun on those little screens

Happily voting 'yes' from the comfortable position of not having to deal with whatever the unforeseen consequences would be.

And soundcloud isn't social media is it? Take away the timed comments, everyone will be happy.

yes. easily as I only use Twitter but by use I mean follow and laugh at a bunch of comedians and click Like once in a while.

I voted "no" but only because it's too late to change the outcome of the 2016 election

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHtiQ9Du3Q

I couldn't click "yes" fast enough.

Soundcloud has consistently been the only place where I get spam email.

Voted 'yes' without hesitation

haha any time I get an email I know even prior to opening it's going to be something like "hi honey u have dicke i liek to see it"

I can't even tell if the random strangers who "like" my tracks are even real

weirder still was when one of my spoof doo-wop tracks wound up posted as part of someone's doo-wop mp3 collection that he shared to the net (according to Google)

"doing away with social media as we know it" will highly likely only lead to something way worse popping up tomorrow, so, no.

Twitter has good days and bad days tbh but overall I'd have to get rid

Social media > rolling news channels. Yeah. I wrote it. Daamn.

Oh shi

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(^^ my social media response)

I'd happily go back to the way the internet was in the late 90s/early 2ks: email, a few Usenet forums. Websites but without any fucking comments sections on articles.

We're specifically talking social media here so I also assume things like Spotify/Youtube are ok (surely people dont use that in a social sense urgh?)

(IOW: leme still download me stories and music, but the rest can eff off)

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I do love the customizable privacy settings on FB and always have. I now have a friend group enacted specifically to shield from my blasphemous and anti-Christian posts so they don't come crying to me like my mom did once on Thanksgiving

Oh Ive always filtered a huge batch of people out of all my FB posts. Whenever I dont, my mother txts me to comment. I whinged about a current back problem and now she wont leave me alone about buying show orthotics.

I deleted the FB app from my phone the other day too. I dont like how little control one has over anything using it (and how it gets its claws into your contacts and whatnot). Browser only, no Messenger.

show = shoe.

haha if I write about having the sniffles or being sore my mom (who lives like 15 mins away from me) asks me if I want her to bring me meds. it's adorable really (even if I keep wanting to say "MOM I'M 36!!!")

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OK. We've got our orders. Let's make it happen! First step: convincing a billion FB users to pull the plug. Seems like the best way would be to make a meme and post it on FB. amirite?

first we have to embed ourselves in the social media world so that no one will suspect our true intentions. let's keep regularly using social media and then check back here in 10 years or so to kick off the second stage of the plan

I already done use twitter, never really have (I just dont *get* it, somehow). Its weird because I know a large chunk of my close friend groups have these discussions/plans I'm completely out of the loop about, because that lot, oddly, are all twittter only and refuse to use Fcebook.

So it goes.

what is social media? are we talking strictly the internet? are we including tabloids too? imo the benefits far outweigh the hazards. instant global communication. this is a huge step towards a real global democracy. of course there is a lot of trash but you know

ofc it is painful at first. we are hearing things that have been censored by the cultural hegemony for thousands of years. we are hearing it all at once. all the ideologies that for emerged in the social (and virtual/information/written/historical) realm over thousands of years. for the most part ideologies have remained isolated in bubbles, largely to due monopolization of the means of production.

we need time to adjust to the technology. the possibility of mass production of text and mass communication began in 1440, only 500 years ago. visual mass communication began in the early 1900s, only 100 years ago, and there were only 3 channels of TV until very recently. the internet is brand new and constantly changing. as time goes on and as evolve the social machine the useless name calling and destructive/waste of time rhetorical tricks will become obvious. we will realize how useless they are and use them less. things that are shocking will be things we have heard and responded to many times over. we will maybe realize that the internet tends to promote over-reactions and get less upset about stuff. i think social media is a good opportunity to learn how to respect each other's entertainment choices.

I've patched twitter, facebook and instagram. find you just end up missing things, or missing out on things, becoming slightly dislocated from your friends and what is going on in their lives. we're all so busy it's hard to get a lot of the colour of friends' lives except through what they post on fb

everything is co-ordinated via facebook too. seriously, if I didn't still have messenger feel like sometimes I'd have no window into some friends' lives. probably more of an indictment of me than anything. considering picking up fb/ig at least again. twitter I don't miss

tl/dr: buy FB on the dip

This is more meaningful than 10 million likes or followers, no?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kMM-YkUJyVw/XVfRp1zr2SI/AAAAAAABJk4/p2AAWk9hMIIzSfgr1RDB_46uMqQeHiOxwCEwYBhgL/s1600/aug%2B51%2Bseg.jpg

answers on a postcard, please

Hank had a damn nice home audio system for 1951

hank, there's a reason you have paper all over your floor. turn your desk fan off. i know you've recently suffered a severe head injury but that does not mean that you cannot understand cause and effect

that was there before his accident

hank, you know that wasn't the kind of "white dress shirt" that we asked you to wear for this photoshoot

This is more meaningful than 10 million likes or followers, no?

I think the difference is less about 'meaningful' and more about scaling up the 'meaningless' from an isolated newspaper stunt to the level of an unceasing avalanche.

Why do you say it was a newspaper stunt? Maybe it was, I don't know--are you just conjecturing?

That’s Hank Garland, I assume

Hank had a damn nice home audio system for 1951

Think the story is he was chasing after his wife when he crashed.

Weird courtship.

Ha, I think they were already married with children and he was jealous about something

I bet a lot of great art would have been lost to Twitter if it'd been around. If Hank had been coming out of a bad relationship in 1950, this is what you would've got instead of a song.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/hank.jpg

Ha, yeah

https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/weneedtotalkabout/7569/we-need-to-talk-about-hank-garland-the-forgotten-star-of-the-six-string/

I've Been Everywhere (With My Dick)

https://i.imgur.com/X3ZJ03X.jpg

ah, the old days when "we need to talk about" meant something other than "cancel this irredeemable piece of shit"

idnr those old days tbh

General comment, no idea where to put it. This happens over and over again with me and probably for a whole lot of people. You notice a post on your Facebook wall--you don't read it, it just barely registers; you notice a thread on ILX or ILM up near the top, same thing; another related post on FB six hours later, and then it finally clicks in someone famous died.