Instagram, Facebook, almost the whole internet

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0bleak

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what's the point?
maybe it's cause i aint young and hip, but i don't get instagram at all
a friend recommended i join a couple of years ago, so i was like ok, what do i post - so i would very randomly (especially at first) choose music to take pictures and post, and it just seemed like I wasted a lot of time
i've basically abandoned it now, but every now and then i'll take a look at it, and it's just a constant influx of "likes" from what must be OnlyFans women looking to troll for more suckers, or friend requests from the same
facebook, i've also mostly abandoned - today, I got one of those facebook "look back at date so and so" and i couldn't help but laugh because it was like a reminder of why i basically abandoned it (I'd say prolly half of my 200 "friends" on there are family in some way even if distantly related) and not only did not any one of my friends respond or "like" when i posted about some traumatic stuff that many of them never knew about (especially those friends that knew me in my 20s), - NOT EVEN ONE FAMILY MEMBER
 
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0bleak

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and f*ck your stories - these antisocial media platforms need to pick a lane - not give me a dizzying array of options from horizontal to vertical scrolling - my mind is full of enough chaos, noise and confusion as it is - give me some kind of order to all this mess, jeezus
 
Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
The artist Murphy (he/they) only talks in the 3rd person and does not love an insta link only to find that after scrolling down two rows, the site essentially stops the artist Murphy engaging with insta-bs lives by saying “create an account, create an account, c’mon you know you want to create an account dckface’ - close link

The artist Murphy (he/they) only talks in the 3rd person and, counterintuitively, has never done FB as life isnt pvt enough as it is thus requiring no sm - Nokia shit phownz r us - but tickets have stalled for Murphy’s new tour. Discounts and Twofors pending, watch this space!!! And he has a fuzz pedal!!!!!! And It works !!!!!!!!!

The artist Murphy (he/they) only talks in the 3rd person sometimes enjoys embedded Twitter links when they’re amusing or informative but is increasingly dismissive of Reddit content creeping here, there and everywhere - hey, it’s not a perfect world!

The artist Murphy (he/they) is not an artist, time having stalled on a writing project as his new role as youth development coach to aspiring future English (brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) international (pls choose Ireland boys) cricket players develops. It’s an incredibly humbling journey. Murphy is beginning to grasp the more nuanced features of the game and can pad up - just like tacking a horse

Jan 23rd - The Tankard o’ Pilchards, Skegness
Feb 23rd - Burger King, Hull, covert guerrilla filming project
March 23rd - Sumac Outdoor Unseated Pie Stall, Darlington
April 23rd - Royal Tunbridge Wells, HmmGuv mass trolling art installation event/live set
May 23rd - 23 Deck 23 Minutes 23 Choons Master Mix, Radio Mapperley, 23:23pm [Owl House You]
June 23rd - Annual Hippy Cull, Avebury
July 23rd - Impromptu Live Set, Busking, errrrm this isn’t quite working out
August - August, mobile disco guy never got back might as well be Mars, bet it just rains all year
September - Sell the house, start bumping h
October - the wife can’t take it any more lads, she’s taken everything, cleared the bank acct, taken the kids ..
November - nitazenes are fuckin banging knowwharamsayinduck liiike ya cun jus gouch out on’t sofa and gerra propa nod on n tha but I ain’t shooting it duck jus a few bumps yeah you know the fookin score eh lad you know the score after a heavy un and ya know I’ll nae do owt in front of you and the lads cuz there’s no poin in tryna figh eet ya listen meh you just have to hold on t‘buckin bronco rhino yeti tail aye lad you know the score safe as fuck you and me againsssst the fookin world kid so best training and have ya got a spare twenty for the leccy meter cos I seen you put it away in t’shop earlier
December - …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Instagram used to be about following your friends, sharing photos, plus maybe following some celebrities but now it's just a content feed. (See also Facebook.)

There are interesting accounts on there, artists for example but it's mostly memes and adverts.
 
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0bleak

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yyaldrin said:
i don't understand the stories/reels it's too frantic for me. but maybe it's because i'm only using these things on my laptop and not on my phone?
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yeah, maybe that's my problem since I hate doing most internet stuff on the phone
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Pretty sure Instagram just became tiktok, although I've got quite a shaky grasp of what TikTok is.

They saw how addictive TikTok was and said yes let's also do that.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
yyaldrin said:
i don't understand the stories/reels it's too frantic for me. but maybe it's because i'm only using these things on my laptop and not on my phone?
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I think this is key, for some reason

The phone is a dopamine device, it's like a slightly more sophisticated version of a vape
 
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0bleak

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everyone is just copying everyone
pretty soon we will also have diagonal scrolling, video game style scrolling where you have to "unlock" the next story through a series of actions, circular scrolling, mobius strip time-loop scrolling etc.
 
wektor

wektor

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0bleak said:
everyone is just copying everyone
pretty soon we will also have diagonal scrolling, video game style scrolling where you have to "unlock" the next story through a series of actions, circular scrolling, mobius strip time-loop scrolling etc.
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There’s interactive ones already where you shake your phone and something happens
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Dissensus is slightly addictive ala twitter, instagram, etc.

But it hasn't got 1,000 members constantly posting all the time which would make it absolutely crack-cocaine-ish
 
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0bleak

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wektor said:
There’s interactive ones already where you shake your phone and something happens
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yeah, they've even got something like that on Discogs now where you can pull up a random item from your collection by shaking your phone
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind


seems like there is a race to the bottom about which platform can be the most vile and racist
 
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