Social Media is slowly dying with GenZ

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Basically now people view SM from strangers as opposed to friends like when it started in the late oughts. Posting yourself if you are not trying to be an influencer/content creator has been fading for years and the people routinely posting seem to have low EQ.

I am GenX and scroll Tik Tok. IG feels outdated and poorly organized now. Deleted FB a few years ago. So I use SM like a Gen Z (viewing and maybe commenting) as opposed to an older person who posts about themselves, not realizing that that era has ended.

IG is favored over TikTok among my teens. You might be the outdated one.

LOL IG is basically almost dead and generally for millennials, except for one exception--teens posting for their friends when they don't want to use Snapchat. I assume you mean they favor it only for posting and seeing friends' posts (which aren't even that frequent for most teens). For scrolling, they are likely not watching Reels (the two-month old tik tok feed).

This is not true. Most teens exchange IG accounts instead of phone numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid and all their friends rarely post if ever. They like having some privacy in their lives. I myself gave up Facebook years ago as I realized it just wasn’t healthy to seek online validation. Do you still post? Which platforms? Do your kids? How frequently? And these days AI is a real risk to your privacy are you worried about AI images of you or your loved one?

I'd say your kids are the anomaly. Our Gen Z kids are on TikTok (which I will have nothing to do with) and IG (which reluctantly I am on, mostly to keep up with their posts). They may also be elsewhere, but if so, I don't know about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m gen X. Gave it up Facebook five years ago and no regrets. Never had instagram. One of my kids is not into it at all. Even refuses to have linked in account for career. The other kid is more social and maybe still doing snap chat or instagram. I would love for this trend to die completely. I honestly think it’s the downfall of our society. My ex husband was so swept up and influenced by all this - it helped ruin our marriage.

no boomer

[Anonymous]

Some still do TikTok but a lot focus on YouTube My teen daughter looks at insta but mainly watches 100000 Netflix show . My teen son is addicted to video games. Both hate FB and I'm not on anything except Reddit and sometimes Pinterest. It's all texting for everyone all the time too!!

[Anonymous]

I wish this were true but it just is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basically now people view SM from strangers as opposed to friends like when it started in the late oughts. Posting yourself if you are not trying to be an influencer/content creator has been fading for years and the people routinely posting seem to have low EQ.

I am GenX and scroll Tik Tok. IG feels outdated and poorly organized now. Deleted FB a few years ago. So I use SM like a Gen Z (viewing and maybe commenting) as opposed to an older person who posts about themselves, not realizing that that era has ended.

IG is favored over TikTok among my teens. You might be the outdated one.

LOL IG is basically almost dead and generally for millennials, except for one exception--teens posting for their friends when they don't want to use Snapchat. I assume you mean they favor it only for posting and seeing friends' posts (which aren't even that frequent for most teens). For scrolling, they are likely not watching Reels (the two-month old tik tok feed).

This is not true. Most teens exchange IG accounts instead of phone numbers.

I literally exchanged AIM screen names when I met my wife in college instead of phone numbers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid and all their friends rarely post if ever. They like having some privacy in their lives. I myself gave up Facebook years ago as I realized it just wasn’t healthy to seek online validation. Do you still post? Which platforms? Do your kids? How frequently? And these days AI is a real risk to your privacy are you worried about AI images of you or your loved one?

Of course they don’t have FB. They have Finstas, TikTok, and Snap.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m gen X. Gave it up Facebook five years ago and no regrets. Never had instagram. One of my kids is not into it at all. Even refuses to have linked in account for career. The other kid is more social and maybe still doing snap chat or instagram. I would love for this trend to die completely. I honestly think it’s the downfall of our society. My ex husband was so swept up and influenced by all this - it helped ruin our marriage.

no boomer

Actually boomers have mostly embraced all the social media more than Gen X. I used to be on all the platforms, but it's become a slop.of AI, influencers trying to get people to buy crap, and fascists.

[Anonymous]

I work in social media and i'm sorry to inform you that it's very much not dying. it's just evolving. And no, no one has posted on facebook for 5 years now.