/ot/ - off-topic

I don't think instagram will die, but Twitter might if there will be a better replacement.

Eg that happened to Skype or TeamSpeak when Discord became popular.

Facebook wont die because while it's less popular with young people in the West a lot of people almost onmy use it in third world countries. Not sure about Instagram. Twitter could die in a long time if normies get bored of it. If there's a better alternative than tumblr and twitter to shit post for small communities like fandoms or weird as fuck activists these people could leave even earlier than normies.

As for dead social media. RIP Bebo.

I think social media platforms will eventually disappear, especially in technology forward countries (that's not necessarily just the west). I think the companies behind them won't (all) disappear, I think they will attempt to adapt to new trends and/or buy themselves into other markets. Like how FB is into crypto.

I think on the long term, our devices (phones, laptops) and how we use and access the internet will become outdated and eventually obsolete. I imagine new technologies will develop and existing technologies such as VR will develop further and integrate into our daily lives. I think new platforms will pop up that use those technologies that will become the next new big thing, leaving social media as we know it today outdated.

I think (and hope) reddit will die early this decade.

Re: twitter - you guys remember when ello tried to poach its userbase? I remember when it launched, a bunch of my tumblr mutuals at the time signed up just to get the good usernames, but it never really took off.

>>692216
>new technologies will develop and existing technologies such as VR will develop further and integrate into our daily lives
I think you are right but it scares me a lot. I wish I could go live in a little society with none of this stuff. The world keeps getting more fucked up.
>mfw I envy the amish

I went back on fb after being off it for a few years and have noticed a lot of others have deleted or those that still have a profile do not update it much, maybe a few times a year. Facebook is dying at least with my peers and thank fuck. That website is just a glorified marketplace. Remember how annoying pop up adverts were? Now instead dog popups there's just endless videos and photos of people showing what products they want to buy. The most common post I see on fb is someone entering a competition. People are getting turned off marketing and advertising and thank fuck.

>>692217
Was ello the supposedly really exclusive website that you had to receive an invite to join? I guess part of the idea was to create a chain of people inviting new users, but it just seemed dumb.

If that’s the site I’m thinking of, I did actually join. I was too shy to ask anyone on tumblr for a referral, so I applied to join on the website even though they said they didn’t often approve users this way. Approved quickly, set up my page, realised it was boring as fuck and promptly left.

I wish TikTok died. Do you guys think there will be more CCP-created datacollecting/surveillance apps that will get popular?

>>692276
they seem to be using games now hence, genshin impact.

>>692216
>VR will develop further and integrate into our daily lives
I dunno. I think VR is the 3d movies of current tech - the people behind it pushed it a lot, but no consumer actually wants it. I've never heard anyone say that they prefer VR to any other way of experiencing a game.

I miss MySpace and I will never understand why Facebook replaced it. It was so superior in almost every way. I also miss Tumblr before the porn ban.

I think TikTok is not long for this world, personally. It will be a flash in the pan and die within a few years, I expect.

>>692276
Wait another 3 years. It'll be surpassed by some other brain dead app.

tumblr from 2010-2012 was peak internet imo. I know it's still there but it got sick when it got infested with the woke sjw cesspool and died with banning "female representative nipples".

last.fm used to be really cool too, with lots stuff to discover with their radio stations dedicated to music bands or genres but as far as I know they do not do it anymore and is in times of spotify and other streaming services really outdated.

instagram is currently an interesting one because I feel with the most recent updates they really pushed a lot of people away, because it moves more and more away from its og idea and people hate lol. I guess they will stay until there will be another image charing site without "reels" and the "shopping button".

also rip vine

>>692301
>I will never understand why Facebook replaced it.

video related explains its rise and fall pretty well. But to make it short: People felt like it was cleaner looking and safer than myspace that had a lot of security issues going on.

>>692195
I disagree, I think instagram is more likely to die since FB has been changing it to become a marketplace which is definitely not how many people use it.

>>692217
Tbh as an imageboard user and general manhater I think reddit is cringe and should die, but it is useful to get links and stuff. Like the r/piracy megathreads.

>>692269
Now MSCHF is attempting to do the same with an exclusive social media with celebs, apparently

>>692217
I want reddit to die too, but I don't think it'll happen soon. I think the old users are just going to be put off by all the changes they're making (redesign, ads, banning subreddits) and the new userbase of teenagers who make shitty posts everywhere. It'll just become a website for normies.

>>692267
A lot of my peers have also abandoned Facebook along with Twitter. I'm not sure what social media app my age group prefers now (early 20s). I'm guessing Instagram or they just stopped giving a shit about social media and just text eachother. Anyways, I find I'm actually starting to prefer Facebook again for the groups. They feel comfier and more social to me compared to subreddits or forums.

>>692217
>>692276
I agree with both tik tok and reddit. I really want tik tok to die because CCP data mining, and reddit because they are misogynistic as well as the content isn't as good as it used to be. I'm thinking Facebook might die in the west and westernised countries, and Instagram will die overall. I know they're both owned by Facebook, but I just see them both dying in the 2020's.

Does anyone miss the days of blogging? I guess you can still start a blog but the community is dead. I used to have a big roll of MMO blogs on Google Reader (though I never played any)

What kind of blogs do you miss?

>>692789
Same. I still visit some blogs, namely music sharing blogs and blogs about people who go hiking in my area to get new ideas. I would like to read more book review blogs and simple blogs where the author makes intelligent posts about their opinions and topics that interest them. I also liked the blogs that had their own little community in the comment sections.

>>692789
Yes, I loved reading people’s random blogs, even the crazy ones with schizo chans or conspiracy nuts. I like seeing people’s passions.

I can’t imagine youtube lasting another five years. Pretty sure they’re gonna try to find a way to make you pay for the whole goddamn app/site, not just premium.

Most social media nowadays is pretty boring, too much sperging, and too obviously fake to enjoy or take seriously.

>>692789
God, yes. I'm an oldfag who was hooked on Livejournal in the 00's and I still miss that time. Instead of dropping shitty twitter takes in less than 200 characters you usually had to write an entry that had some amount of substance. A lot of my friends got creative too, they posted photos of places they've been to, drawings, edits, music playlists, shared their thoughts in depth and overall just put a lot more effort into it. Customizing the layout was also really fun.

I'm predicting that social media will die in the 2020's because it's become too corporate driven. The appeal of it in the beginning was that you could meet real people and interact with regular folks just like you, but now corporations have taken over and the algorithms favor their content over small creators who get banned by the abusing of the DMCA reporting system or similar loopholes. For the past few years I've barely used social media platforms anymore because it really feels like that the moment you post something it no longer belongs to you. I'd say independent homepages, forums and blogs might make a comeback because people are getting sick of having their data and identity in the hands of big corporations.

can we as a society band together and try to revive myspace? i was a little kid when it was at its peak and from everything i've read it wasn't nearly as soulless as social media is now

>>692284
Agree. VR has been in development for almost 30 years at this point and it still hasn't advanced past "put a phone screen in front of your eyes" and jumpscare gimmicks for "immersion". I think AR will be a way bigger thing than VR because it's much easier to do for one thing and has a lot of benefits in the professional world for example (building construction, design, etc.) so there are a lot more interested backers to fund its development. VR is all in all just a pipe dream and unless we invent a way to have complete control of your sensory nervous system to stimulate touch and other feelings it's never going to happen.

>>692938
It blows my mind how shit VR games are, they're almost all just glorified physics tech demos with wagglan gameplay from the wii circa 2006 where you can't even walk your character around. When I ask owners what they do with their VR headsets the answer is of course POV porn.

>>692935
your prediction is what I hope for and kind of think too. seriously, youtube is becoming so much more monetized like everything else. every site (except ones like lolcow) you get ads each time you blink. I want people to get fed up like I am already. part of me worries that the younger gens won't care because they never knew it any other way. but even so, it's bad and probably gonna worsen. corporations they're just testing how far they can push us with it all. people are hooked for now on their media and consumption, though they will discuss the ethical problems at times. I hope its possible the tolerating and addiction to it all can end. somethings gotta give

>>692212

This comment made me nostalgic so I looked up some random old bebo profiles

https://web.archive.org/web/20120104141750/http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=

https://web.archive.org/web/20060617033806/http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=18782282

I'm british so these are the kinds of profiles I used to see

https://web.archive.org/web/20111008080954/http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=461978236

I have so many thoughts on this topics that I'll share later but for now I will just say that I think youtube as we know it is gonna die and will be used differently, I will elaborate later.
( I miss the edit comment feature from forums where you could hold a place for later. )

>>692983
It already did happen. Back in the late 00's/early '10s Youtube started heavily purging people who used content created by big corporations even if it fell under fair use (like reviews, let's plays, critique etc.) people migrated to their own sites pretty fast to keep their content up so it's entirely possible that once people are pushed far enough the platform will wither. Youtube eased its rules once they realized this was the case and everyone returned but now they're doing the same thing with monetization, making people jump through numerous hoops to scourge up a coin to fund themselves and having to alter their content to follow the everchanging community guidelines. I'm just waiting for it to blow up in Youtube's face and it's bound to happen to other media platforms as well once they tighten the noose to the point they start choking everyone who the users came to see.

>>692789
I miss livejournal so much. It used to be where my best friends and I hung out and updated each other on our daily lives, and we learned basic web design/html from designing our lj layouts, but aside from that I found great fun in reading the ljs of certain fic writers I liked. Their prose was so well-thought-out and enjoyable regardless of the subject matter, to the point where I enjoyed reading about their lives. >>692935 was right; Twitter forces you to make shitty takes in under 280 characters, but lj gave creatives real freedom.