How Are Social Media Changing Discussion Habit?
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Social media has kinda changed how people talk and discuss things online. A lot of platforms are built around short posts, quick comments, and just scrolling fast through stuff. Because of that, people dont always take time to write long replies or think deeply about a topic like they used to on forums.
It also feels like attention spans are a bit shorter now. People often just skim posts, reply quickly, or react with a meme or emoji instead of having a long conversation. Forums still have good discussions sometimes, but social media has definitely made things more fast paced and less detailed than before.
It also feels like attention spans are a bit shorter now. People often just skim posts, reply quickly, or react with a meme or emoji instead of having a long conversation. Forums still have good discussions sometimes, but social media has definitely made things more fast paced and less detailed than before.
Social media has made it so that you don't need to spend more than a few seconds getting your daily dose of news. This filtered down into how we interact with each other personally, add in that giving short, punchy replies are the valid methods of interacting with others, is imo the least option of how we speak to each other.
I totally agree with @Cory on this one,
Before phones, we used to actually thoroughly read things. Now we scan with phones and never stop the scroll in the process. If there is too much information or it's formatted in large blocks of text, many people will not keep reading it.
Younger folks and generations after them will be impacted the hardest by this. They'll lose that reading skill. It will dumb people down. It'll be harder to get things done.
What's even worse is people typically just read the title and assume the title sums up the content. This is how misinformation and psychological operations are successful. Companies and agents will use click-bait titles and people will assume the title sums up the message and not research it.
People are also relying on AI so much that they're ignoring the fact that AI hallucinates often.
We're watching the fall of a species. The human species.
I can honestly say I'm a culprit of this. If I'm browsing forums or social media and I see a large block of text, I'll usually dismiss it. I have had trouble staying focused on reading books throughout my life because of my short attention span. I think technology has only worsened this; it is both a gift and a curse.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't do it...
But I try to remember the old days and try really hard to read a full paragraph these days LOL
What I'm really bad at is watching short-form reel slop on YouTube and IG for hours. I hate that, too. I'm trying to stay away from that. It's easy to get invested in that.
I do the same exact thing! But also, every time I’ve actually stopped to read long social media posts, half the time it’s a spammy share with 25 people type of thing. I can’t stand that. 🤣
I can watch short videos forever, though.
With the exception of North America many metrics suggest that social media use is actually in a rather steep decline. The reasons put forward seem varied but it does appear people have come to realise that putting your real self online may not go so well when it comes to employment prospects.
This could present opportunities for forum owners as users move to more private, smaller messaging groups.
This could present opportunities for forum owners as users move to more private, smaller messaging groups.
Same here, I can get hook on short videos and get glued fast if I'm not careful.😂
But, I'll stop and read a long block of text on a forum all day, but I'll scroll right past a long social media post.🤣
That's imperative, and depends on the type of features. Some forum users may want features, or they may just want the forum experience itself.
Every forum's audience is different, and not every forum needs feature-rich environments.
Social media is designed to give you a quick dopamine fix. There's short posts that are meant for you to just read quickly and move on to the next post, longer posts are harder to read since social media isn't organized neatly like a forum is. Some posts are just short videos, again there for you to get a quick fix and scroll on to the next thing.
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