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'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' – Why Social Media Bosses Don’t Use Social Media

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-as-I-say dept.

Cowardly Anon writes:

The Guardian writes how tech insiders give their own products a wide berth. The reason is in the design of these services.

I am a compulsive social media user. I have sent about 140,000 tweets since I joined Twitter in April 2007 – six Jacks' worth. I use Instagram, Snapchat and Reddit daily. I have accounts on Ello, Peach and Mastodon (remember them? No? Don't worry). Three years ago, I managed to quit Facebook. I went cold turkey, deleting my account in a moment of lucidity about how it made me feel and act. I have never regretted it, but I haven't been able to pull the same stunt twice.

I used to look at the heads of the social networks and get annoyed that they didn't understand their own sites. Regular users encounter bugs, abuse or bad design decisions that the executives could never understand without using the sites themselves. How, I would wonder, could they build the best service possible if they didn't use their networks like normal people?

Now, I wonder something else: what do they know that we don't?

Apparently what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:15AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:15AM (#632858) Homepage Journal

    They're not fair to everyone. But they've been fair to me. So many of my friends, their tweets were deleted. Or their accounts were suspended. Because the administrators don't agree with their message. It's never been a problem for me. But I go on Facebook, I always remember who's running it. A guy who went to Harvard. But I went to UPenn. A guy who may be running against me in 2020. He's been very fair to me. But it feels weird. And I see what happened to my friends. And maybe if I keep tweeting on Facebook the same will happen to me. But until it happens I'm staying on both. And Instagram and YouTube. Not many people know, Instagram is part of Facebook now. And Snapchat for the booty snaps. Somebody on SoylentNews doesn't know what a booty snap is. I don't think he knows. It's very sad.

    We live in the age of Social Media, folks. The big Social Media sites are a great way to get your unfiltered message out. To get past the Fake News gatekeepers. They can take you a long way, believe me. A very long way.

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