Why do they do that!?

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House on Mango Street is amazing from elementary to senior citizens

Same! The point is your friends are writing. I don’t care about celebrities or academics or strangers. I just what my friends write. But you know careers and kids and shit … understandably takes priority. Same with me! I have so many essays in my head I want to write, but alas, lesson plans.

Social media begins by serving you, and then it ends by you serving it.

Then your friends’ posts start disappearing in favor of group aggregate posts. I watch this happen with Facebook, Instagram, then TikTok. (I remember when TikTok was very enjoyable and did not have ads.) The model itself requires turnover.

you exclusively see either of your friends or content that you really like. After a while, once the base is big enough, entities want to start advertising or using the platform for incendiary postings that garner traffic to generate money. And then it’s an ad every third or fourth posting.

Well that was an lol.

Same.

Thanks hon! Good to find you here, too. I do hope more friends join and jot down their thoughts. I am reminded, particularly in this era of anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise, that my love of the written word is the minority and not the majority.

Omg amazing thank you. Wanted to find everyone. How did you do that?!

find that here. Perhaps the loss of written activity is just the maturation of friends who don’t need to (or can’t) engage on social media because of actual life happening in the moment. Which is good, right? Still miss it though.

seeking the possibility of such interactions through threaded 300 character conversations. I don’t like the photo format of Instagram because what I love is printed word. I want to mindlessly scroll my friends’ thoughts where the photos are the afterthought, not the main attraction. Perhaps I’ll