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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, Insightful) by SpockLogic on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:48PM (7 children)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:48PM (#632912)

    I live a happy and contented life without Facepalm or Twotter. My digital soul is not for sale.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:39PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:39PM (#632918)

    Yet here you are.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:35PM (2 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:35PM (#632929) Journal
      Wake me up when SN figures out how to monetize AC smarm. I want to get in on that action.

      • (Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:12PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:12PM (#632939) Journal

        Monetize it, hell, figure out a way to hook it up to a dynamo...we'll make MEEEEEELLIONS!

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:48PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:48PM (#633049)

        Thanks for coming up to see me! Hopefully you don't view my comments as smarm. Maybe I'll create an account. I know I'll refuse to moderate, though.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:44PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:44PM (#632931)

    My digital soul is not for sale.

    Sure it is... Nobody offered the right price yet. Besides, what you don't give, Facebook/Twitter takes. Anybody can throw your name and picture up any time. I don't have Facebook, but people have seen or put my name and pix up there. You can't hide. The cameras and microphones are everywhere. That whole "privacy" thing doesn't exist. Let it go...

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:35PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:35PM (#632947) Journal

      Nobody offered the right price yet

      And if nobody can offer the right price, then it's not for sale, by definition.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @06:22AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @06:22AM (#633156)

      You can't convince me to become a digital whore. Not even a great try.

      Besides, it's not your name and picture social media really wants but your interaction. And that nobody can give them except you.