My Soshy-Meeds experience

[zesty_pinto]

By the way, so far I've gotten the hang out of social media enough to feel the following differences:

Facebook: people know you from real life, want you to make them feel good about them by talking about how good your life is... or memes.

Twitter: people don't know you and if you aren't reacting to their stuff, then try to be entertaining in the most succinct way possible.

Reddit: people just want you to say what's the most obvious, or the most groupthinky. If not that, then see Twitter.

Never made it through Tumblr to survive there, which was a shame since I wanted a social media that I could use to show off my photography easily and that one was most likely (that and Ello, which I now get reminded still exists because pornbots keep liking my stuff. Thanks, pornbots!)

Comments

[notasupervillain]

I thought instagram was for photos?

[notasupervillain]

Tumblr: people want you to groupthink about why all the media you love is problematic.

[perniciouslizard]

tumblr's okay but only if you're willing to be kind of merciless about who you follow and who you block, which isn't great for when you're there to showcase art

[padhopper]

That pretty much sums up my lists as well. Facebook is people I have met in real life. I don't add just anyone, I have to be connected in some way. I use A LOT of filters on Facebook. Neighbours are limited, board people are limited, game folk are limited. Family gets to see it all.

Twitter for me, are random mind dumps OR to add people who share a common interest. For instance I add people who were watching Riverdale. We all use the same hashtag and live tweet when the episode airs. It's basically 200 people going omg did you see that?!?

Instagram I have a cat account, a personal account and public account. All get different pics.

Tumblr is a bunch of angst-filled millennials who only have time for other angst-filled millennials who say the exact same thing as the last angst-filled millennial. You are in no way allowed to say something, unless it is exactly what the rest are saying.

And then there is LJ and Dreanwidth. I don't add digital journal people to Facebook or Instagram because I like not seeing TOOOOO much of their lives. I'll follow their random mind dumps on Twitter because to me those words are connected to their digital journal.

Oy vey that was long of me.