Ronnie on Nostr: From Sunsets to Spam: What Happened to Social Media? Remember when your Instagram ...
From Sunsets to Spam: What Happened to Social Media?
Remember when your Instagram feed was a genuine window into someone’s life? Aunt Carol’s cruise photos. Your college roommate’s hiking trip. A grainy sunset that someone just had to share. It was messy, human, and oddly beautiful.
Now scroll for thirty seconds. You’ll wade through a chiropractor’s promotional reel, a stranger screaming about a supplement that “changed their life,” three ads disguised as personal stories, and at least one cryptic post that reads like it was scrawled on a gas station bathroom wall at 2am.
Social media has quietly become the Yellow Pages — every business demanding your attention — staple-gunned to a bathroom stall covered in unsolicited opinions, hot takes, and “link in bio” desperation.
The tragedy isn’t the ads. It’s that the genuine moments are still in there somewhere, buried. Real people still post real things. But we’ve been trained to scroll so fast that authenticity looks suspicious now.
We traded a neighborhood photo album for a digital flea market nobody asked for.
What was the last genuinely personal post you remember stopping to appreciate? And do you think “authentic” social media is even possible anymore — or is that ship long gone?
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