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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow (www.newindianexpress.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forums are definitely social media, but I like to think of them as the less shitty kind.

[–] cyberpunk007 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

True, whenever I see "social media" brought up though I'm always picturing Facebook, Twitter, Myspace. This and reddit and forums definitely are a form of though. Even bbs back in the day.

I tend to divide them based on how much they want to manipulate and sell me shit. Also how much of my personal info they require.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IRC was my social media back in the day lol

[–] cyberpunk007 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Still use it from time to time haha. I'm old, recently discovered how much discord has taken over as a forum/chat/irc sort of replacement.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 2 points 11 months ago

I mostly just use forums like Lemmy and Kbin these days.