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0 pointsreaperducer4y ago0 comments

One could argue they filled out their niche

Between this and Facebook's recent woes, I wish this was a sign of a global tiring of social media in general.

I'm frequently wrong about these things, but one can hope.

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Wouldn’t TikToks rise be in opposition to that idea?

I don't use TikTok, so I'm probably wrong here.. but isn't TikTok "algorithmically served user generated content" rather than "community" or "social media". As I understand it, it's like a TV station. If there's "dialog", it's in the form of answer-films, rather than actual discussion. If it does behave the way I think it does, then it backs up the idea that social media is on the wane.

shakezula4y ago

It’s not the end of social media, just nearing the end of its first gods.

Traubenfuchs4y ago

TikTok can be considered at least 3rd generation, if FB and Twitter were second and first is MySpace. I am sure one could argue there are more generations. Twitter is not among the first social media god generation.

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