Social networks exist in name only – #28

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You jumped into this article from some social network, maybe Weibo, Twitter, Moments. But it probably doesn’t come from your friends’ sharing, it may come from someone who likes it, or it may come from an agency account, in short, someone you don’t know well.

Are we really “socializing” when we look back at our pull-to-refresh action? We may be relieving not social needs but information anxiety; when we browse our watchlists or friends lists, how many of them are people we really know? I don’t know when it started, but our input and output on social networks deviates from the original intention :

  • Marketing accounts, “weak links” occupy our social circle
  • The news of friends is submerged in the sea of ​​information, and you need to go to his homepage to salvage
  • The desire to express from time to time is stranded in the deletion and deletion
  • Real people put on masks, greedy ads remove disguise
  • Everyone slowly made the silent majority
  • Still in the center of the stage, it may be the content of the goods that floated from nowhere along the algorithm

Recently, I have read a lot of foreign language articles that slander Meta , so I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the nature of social networking, the external and internal causes of its impending demise, and how it will return in the future.

Nature

A social network, as the name suggests, is social networking on the web. If we take the analogy of offline social relationships,…

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