A random rant about "big" social media.
I've been on social media for 20 years+. It has served me pretty well. I've reconnected with people and become aware of things that were happening either in my area or further afield. Both my main "in physical form" hobbies use it heavily in a members group so we know what's happening. So I don't really want to leave.
However, wtaf is with all the videos of people talking to cameras? That's all it seems to want to show me. Even worse people talking to cameras in cars whilst driving the cars. Please either drive the car or film this "content". The algorithm isn't that clever because it hasn't worked out I reject every single one where somebody is filming themselves driving.
Of course these have been there for a while and I just scrolled past. A bit like adverts used to be on tv, they were just there. Except they don't go. There's just more of them. The tv programme i.e. stuff I actually follow doesn't come back. Just more camera talking interspersed with people yelling at me to lift weights (I already do. It should know that too.) Then it actually wouldn't show me a post from three days ago written by our band conductor, presumably because he just wrote it rather than filming it as a reel in his car.
I have a feeling this is as useful as opposing the tide, though if anybody does know a way to stop some of the cr*p please let me know. I suspect my options are to leave, with the inconvenience that brings, or put up with an increasing amount of people tapping things, getting too close to the camera and having one dimensional opinions shouted at me.
Thank goodness for Tumblr is all I can say for me being able to write this.
