It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one’s posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

  • @scarabic
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    1 year ago

    For a long time I’ve posted actively to Facebook and then at the end of the year I have my pictures and top posts printed up in a nice “yearbook.” There’s a service that does this (but I’m not here to advertise them). Anyway I am raising kids through these years so sharing milestones and pictures with faroff friends and family is very rewarding.

    But I’ve stopped posting so much that I don’t think there will be a yearbook for this year. It’s just not worth it anymore. Not enough people are going to see my posts, either because they’re no longer visiting or the fucking algorithm has something catchier to show them. Whatever I put up gets the same likes from the same 8 arbitrary people and that’s it.

    It’s sad because my kids love those books and leaf through them all the time, like a kind of family album. I guess it’s time for another solution.

    Related footnote: the “people you may know” feature is just pure comedy now. It’s been forever since it actually connected me to anyone real. It’s showing me coworkers’ adult children now and my neighbor’s dentist and realtor and shit like that. I still look at it, but only for the laughs.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      I get a yearbook from my iphone camera without posting to anything, just from taking photos. Social media isn’t needed for that feature.

      • @scarabic
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        11 year ago

        Yep I will probably go for something like that. The Facebook based one offers more than just the pictures though. Also comments and text posts and link posts, etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      I think now is a good time to forgo or reduce posting the images to Facebook and simply curate the photos yourself from your collection and make the photo album yourself.

      If it’s for your kids, I think it’s worth it to make regardless of if it’s worth it to post it.

      • @DarkWasp
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        1 year ago

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      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Doesn’t Google Photos produce something similar from stored photos? I don’t use it much myself, as I don’t take many photos, but I’ve used it to view screenshots & such on my phone & I seem to recall something like that.

        If so, would definitely be an option to avoid posting while producing a similar yearbook/photo album.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          I can’t imagine Google doesn’t have such functionality, since Apple has had it for years and they’re nearly never first to market with a feature.

        • @CharAhNalaar
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          51 year ago

          Google will literally sell you photo books.