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Ever since the digital newsfeed was added, emphasis on visiting individual profiles has been diminished. You initially look at someone to gauge if they are worth following, and perhaps scan their records and then you add them. They are consumed directly into your feed, and now become part of this noisy list of people. Often you’ll never visit their profile directly again, coming directly to the feed only.
Zuckerberg likes to say they invented the feed, but if you look at local papers this feature has existing historically in them. Granted there is a much more automated documentation of action but the precedence and feel of it is there.
You’d think the facebook newsfeed is a recent invention but there are neighborhood news sections that are literally pages of updates.
In the days of myspace this was different. You’d spend time cultivating your own unique space (within bounds). HTML access to the pages allowed some degree of customization (however distorted that vision became.)
I saw some people saying reposts are there for this reason.
Reposts are a direct injection into the feed. In today’s social media landscape you basically cannot escape broadcast. You repost, and everyone you follow sees it.
There’s a value in discovering something because you sought out someone directly (that is actually take the time to look at them), as opposed to outside of a feed or wide broadcast.
A like doesn’t always need broadcast. It’s a valuable, but quieter signal.
This is counter to probably what twitter wants (lots of posts/engagement) but that’s why we have what we have in the popular social media space (something less than/noisy).
I love the quiet discovery. Everything on social media feels like it is yelling “look at me!” and thus the joy is destroyed.
Where is the joy of rarity? Wouldn’t you rather be hidden and rare? Why the desire to be on display? This is a perverse trend.