Social Media Fading

So that seems a bit unlikely, doesn't it, that we're all going to give up Facebook and all our other social media feeds because that's how we keep in touch with people.

Yeah, but do we really? I mean, it's been the way, for sure.

But actually, you know, there are other ways of doing it.

Or I suppose the thing is, if you are putting out there stuff like Twitter or X or Facebook, it's become so toxic that people don't really want to engage with it anymore.

Yeah, I guess so.

And actually, the main purpose that we started with, which was Facebook.

Do you remember there was a thing before Facebook called Friends Reunited?

I remember lots of things.

Do you remember Bebo and MySpace?

Yeah, exactly.

And they were all sort of like precursors to all of this.

And Friends Reunited actually was a good way of getting in touch with people who you hadn't seen since your uni days.

And it was good because you just had conversations about those people and, you know, life in the uni days and what you've done since.

Without any ads, you paid a subscription for it and they weren't trying to divert the attention away from the conversation you were having.

It was just a pure conversation with a group of friends and that's where it started from.

Now on Facebook, I hardly ever see any information from friends.

I've really actually got to go hunting for them to see if they've said anything.

And then I find that there's a whole stream of stuff that I've missed.

But in terms of what

people do online, I mean, far more of it now is asking questions of AI.

You know, solving problems, finding out information, whatever it is.

And that's just like one-on-one, more or less.

So you don't get that whole social thing.

And it's been, you know, there's another question that social media has been in hugely negative terms.

thing for a lot of people