Social media saturation.: seanan

Social media saturation.

There's a trend I've been noticing lately: everything is suddenly everywhere. I think this may have something to do with the emails I receive daily that are literally checklists of every social media site in existence, complete with a handy "be sure to like this here! Be sure to tweet about this here! Be sure to make a witty Tumblr post complete with reaction .gif here! Be sure to..." and I don't know what comes after that, because I have already deleted the email and gone off to interact with something less exhausting. I have enough trouble remembering to promote myself; I can't take on the responsibility of promoting everything I come into contact with.

It feels like the signal to noise ratio is getting skewed; everything is a sea of signal boosts and endorsements and link-backs and that's lovely, if they're things that you support and believe in. I try to post and tweet and yes, Facebook and the rest about things that I care about. But I don't care about everything in the universe. That would be exhausting.

I wonder if we're just all drowning, and thus all afraid of being overlooked. Whatever it is, I admit I'm getting a little tired of being told how to use my social media. "People will be more likely to notice this if you tweet it!" Well...yes. But then they're less likely to notice my awesome Pokemon.

Everything's a trade-off.

carmy_w

November 12 2013, 18:10:46 UTC 3 years ago

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I have finally gotten to the point of saturation on my main email; I got on so very many lists of national political entities that I was swamped. Now I just do a wholesale delete of them all unless I happen to find one that actually sounds interesting (a few petitions, that's mostly it), or if it's a campaign for my state.
My social media frustration at the moment is with tumblr. Why in the world am I getting an auto-generated email telling me to go look at what's happening on tumblr when I'm already logged in on tumblr??? That's just stupid.

seanan_mcguire

November 12 2013, 18:12:27 UTC 3 years ago

YES.

WHY.

MAKE IT STOP.

November 12 2013, 18:14:38 UTC 3 years ago

LOL!
And here I thought I was the only one!
Maybe they just set the clock and do a wholesale dump to the entire list? Still stupid, though.

(Of course, I haven't attempted to find a way around it or to block it yet. Just easier to hit the delete key.)

umadoshi

November 12 2013, 18:32:29 UTC 3 years ago

That was driving me up the wall with its sheer ridiculousness, but someone pointed out that there's a "Keep me updated with new stuff from Tumblr" ticky box under settings/email. I don't know if Tumblr sends other types of emails that are now being blocked as well, but I don't much care if they are.

November 12 2013, 18:42:36 UTC 3 years ago

OH, thank you! Thank you thank you thank you!

Seriously, though. Thanks!

November 12 2013, 18:57:23 UTC 3 years ago

Glad to help! ^_^

vixyish

November 13 2013, 01:30:51 UTC 3 years ago

I do hate that such things are opt-out rather than opt-in. I keep having to go find the settings on every social medium I use to turn off yet another email notification that they added in the last update.

November 14 2013, 03:13:47 UTC 3 years ago

It's SO annoying. -_- I guess I'd rather have sites messing with my email settings than my privacy settings, if they must go mucking around, but I wish they'd just leave things alone.

greyduck

November 13 2013, 22:18:55 UTC 3 years ago

Blessings be upon you for this.

(I mean, I could've just gone digging, but Tumblr already wastes enough of my time. *cough*)

November 14 2013, 03:14:48 UTC 3 years ago

And Tumblr's settings are so painful to go through, being tucked away in multiple places! Gah.

darkladynyara

November 19 2013, 19:50:53 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you for this. ^_^

November 19 2013, 22:07:02 UTC 3 years ago

No problem!

dragonsong

November 12 2013, 18:19:48 UTC 3 years ago

And it's always stuff that I read/reblogged 2-3 days ago. That's freaking eons in tumblr-time. If you're going to encourage me to stay up to date, please BE up to date, tumblr emails.

November 12 2013, 18:43:33 UTC 3 years ago

See the reply above! There's a box you can untick in the email settings!

November 12 2013, 19:00:28 UTC 3 years ago

Oh hallelujah!

lilrongal

November 12 2013, 23:07:08 UTC 3 years ago

Excellent! I just went in and took care of that!

November 12 2013, 23:14:07 UTC 3 years ago

Haha! Apparently I'm not even close to being the only one driven nuts by this! Happy to help!

aiela

November 12 2013, 20:51:11 UTC 3 years ago

Every once in a while I pick a day, and every mailing list/marketing email I get, I decide whether or not I still care, and unsubscribe if I don't. It has really helped me cut down on things that seemed like a good idea at the time, but are no longer relevant, or whatever.

November 12 2013, 21:52:37 UTC 3 years ago

Now that is a very good idea! It's funny-I actually haven't done more than delete them unread, but the number of them has gone down drastically.

ironed_orchid

November 13 2013, 03:06:58 UTC 3 years ago

Tumblr seem to have amped up their notificatins in the last month or so.

I reset my preferences, and all the emails from them went away, but for awhile it was deeply annoying.

November 13 2013, 16:04:22 UTC 3 years ago

I didn't even get any "Here's what's on tumblr!" notes until they started doing them just after they did the buyout/merger with Yahoo. Just the regular notifications.
I'm just glad there's a spot to turn the darn things off!

phoenix_singing

November 13 2013, 17:26:47 UTC 3 years ago

Or Twitter.

"We haven't seen you in a while"

I AM ON EVERY DAY. I AM ON RIGHT NOW. WHY ;_;

/keeps forgetting to unsubscribe from that notification

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