{"id":1972838,"date":"2023-07-14T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metas-threads-wont-revive-the-magic-of-social-media\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T12:20:27","slug":"metas-threads-wont-revive-the-magic-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metas-threads-wont-revive-the-magic-of-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s threads fail to bring back the enchantment of social media."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmetas-threads-wont-revive-the-magic-of-social-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Many of us hope we can return to a glorious past, or perhaps a fleeting moment, with the right policies, owner, and inertia. Maybe we can even <strong>RETVRN!<\/strong> to those halcyon days (at least, as halcyon as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> can ever be). There\u2019s still the chance that Musk will save Twitter, though he\u2019ll have to log off first. On Earth 2, Jack Dorsey\u2019s new venture, Bluesky, could come to dominate the landscape. But back here on Earth 1, Meta Platform Inc.\u2019s Threads \u2014 which was in no way rebranded and stripped-down Facebook \u2014 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/rip-twitter-meet-threads-mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk\/\"><strong>hot new kid<\/strong><\/a> on the block.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Social Media in Its Buggy Whip Stage?<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s also the chance the social media we currently know, love, and hate is in its buggy whip stage, soon to be replaced by something actually new. For now, though, we must resign ourselves to the fact that there\u2019s no going home to that magical time in the middle of the \u201900s when social media was a revolutionary idea and way to connect.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-642514826\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6ef799c464b7dcfa27b326cf9bf24eb7 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6ef799c464b7dcfa27b326cf9bf24eb7\"><\/div>\n<h3>The Evolution of Social Media<\/h3>\n<p>First, there was Myspace, which in hindsight was better than Facebook. It had its flaws and limitations, but it was more customizable, at least when it came to featuring music. It was the network of Gen X, so naturally it petered out, much like compact disc sales.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook followed and briefly coexisted with Myspace before wholly supplanting it. Twitter, Instagram, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metas-threads-wont-revive-the-magic-of-social-media\/\" title=\"Meta's threads fail to bring back the enchantment of social media.\">myriad short-lived projects<\/a> followed.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter would never overtake Facebook, at least in terms of profits or user base (the product that all social media actually sells). Twitter would overtake Facebook when it came to being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-the-nra-reveals-their-multi-pronged-approach-to-opposing-bidens-gun-control-agenda\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: The NRA Reveals Their Multi-Pronged Approach To Opposing Biden\u2019s Gun Control Agenda\">digital town hall<\/a>, though. In its heyday, journalists and nobodies congregated and communed there. Ideas incubated. Narratives emerged. Anyone could commiserate with anyone. It was the digital Wild West.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the thing about the Wild West is that it can only exist once in each of its forms. As we\u2019ve passed corporeal and are now about to leave the online iteration, we<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gab-ceo-goes-on-record-we-know-100-for-a-fact-that-jared-kushner-is-actively-trying-to-keep-trump-off-gab-video\/\" title=\"GAB CEO Goes On Record: \u201cWe know 100% for a fact that Jared Kushner is actively trying to keep Trump off Gab\u201d [VIDEO]\">\u2019ve run<\/a> out of planes, at least ones low enough to involve the fleeting fads and arguments that populate social media. I may not be a theologian, but I\u2019m confident that the highest plane doesn\u2019t involve yelling at relative strangers from afar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-941903bfbb2674fa0c7dd42ef2b00073 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-941903bfbb2674fa0c7dd42ef2b00073\"><\/div>\n<h3>The Decline of Twitter<\/h3>\n<p>As those of us concerned with such matters are not yet in heaven, we can go to St. Augustine for the time being. We can continue to crave our fixes of dopamine hits from engagement, but that won\u2019t change the fact that the genie can only be let out of the bottle once. Everything after is a pale imitation. It\u2019s Uncle Rico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xL-VX3WbA9U\">yearning to relive<\/a> his high school glory rather than accepting that time continues forward. This is especially when we\u2019re talking about Twitter \u2014 both the platform and the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The heady days when one could log in and expect to exchange ideas with strangers while getting the thrill of new followers, likes, and shares are not coming back. Any newness has been deleted with the \u201cempty trash\u201d button. When one logs on now, the expectation is mostly for mediocre thinking, jokes, vitriol, and cries for attention. There are also the ingroups replete with their own rules, languages, and customs. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsj-microsoft-is-preparing-to-fight-facebook-in-metaverse-turf-war\/\" title=\"WSJ: Microsoft Is Preparing to Fight Facebook in Metaverse Turf War\">digital realm<\/a> can never totally thwart human nature.<\/p>\n<p>Migration from Twitter to Threads may happen. Twitter may become Myspace, but the tribes will mostly remain, save for a few trades. They\u2019re already emerging on Threads. The initial surge of creativity Twitter unleashed has been replaced with formulas, repetition, and predictability, regardless of platform. Strangers arguing with strangers, albeit <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/elon-musk-should-make-twitter-weird-again\/\">weirdly and productively<\/a>, is now a dusty digital relic. Mark Zuckerberg cannot reanimate what he helped to suffocate. Elon Musk\u2019s instincts may be too mercurial for things less lofty than launching rockets into orbit. The next player will face the same challenge of dealing with a concept that has grown old and busted.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to bring back the sort of lively and productive conversation that Twitter once offered, however. You simply have to take it back to the space it resided in before social media. You have to put down the device, go outside, and converse with people. In other words, <strong>RETVRN!<\/strong>, but in a way that actually requires some effort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c8e764742cad9c1ac3cfb3fe0987ba33 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c8e764742cad9c1ac3cfb3fe0987ba33\"><\/div>\n<p>You may have to coordinate this in the group chat, though.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1b9c355414eede4c7775191a23f71fd8 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1b9c355414eede4c7775191a23f71fd8\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many hope for a glorious past or fleeting moment with the right policies, owner, and inertia. Perhaps we can even RETVRN! to halcyon days (as halcyon as social media gets). Musk may save Twitter, but it requires effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":1972839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}