It’s returned to nothing. Losing touch with people you didn’t contact regularly was the norm until the mid 2000s.
replyFor someone who grew up in the ‘golden years’ of social media, it’s kinda weird to see.
The thing is, before social media, we did have a culture of periodically reaching out and calling people. Those muscles completely atrophied though, so when we fall off social media, the result is even less connection than we had before Facebook et al existed.
replyIt just keeps tumblring down, tumblring down, tumblring down.
I just keep logging me out, logging me out, logging me out.
replyI joke, but the internet I knew as a youth going the way of the dinosaurs really has had a deep impact on me. End of an epoch.
"…I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore…"
replyYeah, actually why I left Facebook a decade ago: finding out what horrible people my relatives were.
This applies to “friends” also. And discovering how many of them are actual idiots. Oh, these people can’t put 5 words together to form a coherent sentence and their spelling grammar suck to top it off? I don’t miss it at all.
replySame. Idk how college communication work now; we had class groups and planned everything over FB events/pages back then.
replyFor friends, I started a few text group chats to stay in touch. It's really annoying because someone has Android and RCS is broken on someone's end. Some also use FB Messenger, but nobody 2 years younger or older than me is on that.
When I finished my undergrad a few years ago, we were relying heavily on GroupMe chats, with the occasional Slack and one or two LinkedIn groups mixed in. Discord was just starting to exit the gaming sphere and hit the mainstream though. I'm willing to bet it's absolutely dominating the space now.
replyHow long ago was that if you don't mind me asking? I was in college 2014-2016, and GroupMe existed but was on its way out. I asked our college interns around 2022 what people use for class groups, and I think they weren't sure what I even meant, but the answer wasn't Discord.
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