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.

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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 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.

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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 IG feels outdated and poorly organized now.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 You might be the outdated one.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.

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

I wish this were true but it just is not.

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 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 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.

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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 wrote:Gen X: I’m on DCUM, Facebook, LinkedIn and instagram. I followed two people on TikTok then I know.

My Gen Z family are on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat. They don’t look at Facebook.

I understand some people can’t look at this stuff without getting jealous, or obsessed or influenced.

Just like alcohol, it’s not for everybody.

It’s not going away and it’s gonna be part of the workplace so they better learn social media and AI.

Social media isn't like alcohol, it's like crack. It is not possible to consume TikTok and similar apps without having negative impacts. These apps train your brain to need the constant stimulation of of bite-size entertainment, and also use algorithms to ensure people are only exposed to content they will like/be susceptible to. Also, the apps are free. Why? The same reason drug dealers will sometimes offer a taste for free. Everyone will pay later, don't worry.

You may think you are not susceptible to the negative sides of social media, but likely you are and are simply unaware. People who acknowledge the negative impacts of social media tend to be more critical and self aware, and therefore better able to identify social media as the root of issues. You probably have negative mental health and relationship effects from your social media use, but just don't realize it.

Anonymous wrote:I think that that OP, via the subject line she chose, is showing either ignorance or aged-ness.

"Normal" kids are not posting on social media, but they are definitely consuming it. That doesn't mean it's dead.

It just means that the 2005 Facebook (or 2015 Instagram) model is dying, replaced by content creators (whether it is a company, media outlet, or an "influencer") who develop material for the masses to consume.

This is exactly right. They use it like TV and watch a ton of it. Just because they are not posting 15 pics of their cousin's baby shower doesn't mean social media is dying. It is more popular than ever--just not being used in the same way it was 20-15-10 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:I never understood the attraction of Instagram

It was great when it first started. After Meta bought it, it became the same trash FB is.

I never understood the attraction of Instagram

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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?

So you moved to this site to seek that validation ?:)

So you moved to this site to seek that validation ?:)

How is an anonymous site validating???

Yes, some people seem to mistakenly think DCUM is social media. If you don't have a handle, it's not social media. None of us knows who the hell we're interacting with. I could be Michelle Obama or a cocker spaniel.