Just a brief random thought here, before I go off and try to do something productive with my existence:
I got to wondering if ALL social media is basically one form of SPAM or another.
I mean... sure, we "opt in" by reading things, but I look at some of these people who send tweets to twitter every time their nose twitches, or pictures of every bite of a taco they take goes to Instagram.
I'm going to go walk on the beach...
The reason I was thinking about this was that I was telling a friend that my twitter account was actually over ten years old, and he declared "Yeah, that social media stuff is just too spammy for me."
Although I am a regular user of social media... from Steemit to Facebook... I can appreciate his perspective, and even empathize.
In fact, I have actually gone on complete hiatuses from social media for months at a time because it felt like it had all become a wall of noise, with pretty much zero signal to be found, anywhere. And so I quit, and found myself pondering the question "How does this contribute to any kind of a meaningful life, if it contributes, at ALL?"
I don't have a good answer to that, by the way...
Springtime!
In most cases, I have only been able to rationalize most mainstream social media as a marketing tool for business ventures, rather than anything of personal interest.
And with this Steemlandia gig — which I like, because there does seem to be a certain sense of community here — I have pretty much dropped off other social media, expect for business related situations.
But IS social media basically just a giant spamfest?
Still pondering that...
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