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.

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seanan_mcguire

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

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YES.

WHY.

MAKE IT STOP.

carmy_w

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.