Millennials: It’s ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how “first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.” Ouch.

  • metaphortune@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I grew up on forums / IRC / IMs, later transitioned to Myspace, then Twitter / Facebook / Tumblr / Instagram. I had a lot of fun over the years, it definitely saddens me that I can’t get the things I liked about those experiences back.

    • cogman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Check out the forums again, they are still around in a lot of cases and sometimes more active than what you’ll find on reddit.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      I only discovered IRC a year ago, and now pretty much all my social life is there) With just a bit also existing in XMPP MUCs)