After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like we’ve decided to share less. New polling shows that nearly a third of all social media users post less than they did a year ago. That trend is especially true for adults in Gen Z.
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4MNdCAnWA
how do you keep up with local/town newd, club information and activities? all of mine post exclusively on the fb groups and since i deleted my account i’m out of the loop on everything lol.
See if you can find a Discord or three. Still a walled garden; it Zucks less. Takes some actual networking, but I’m enjoying local communities having been off Facebook for over a decade.
There’s a local bookstore lady that will literally not let us leave without telling us everything happening in town for the next month. Find your gossipy bookstore person. :)
Mostly through my wife who still has Facebook, but I also talk to people (in person) and read the news.
I love being out of the loop.
as an example, i’m an aquarist who focus on developing specific traits - being out of the loop basically means no access to shows, international exchange meetings, local swaps, events and would also set me back 10-20 years on potential development by trying to reinvent the wheel or even likely to fail in such attempts as well as an inability to acquire quality stock to revitalize genes in housed populations.
being out of the loop in this context is equivalent of quitting because its just impossible to do without facebook because these assholes all decided to move their social activity there.