Is this their first platform death? Come on, Wired!

Millennials have been losing platforms on the Internet for pretty much the whole history of the Internet. Just a handful of "social media" type services that have risen and fallen in my years of the internet: AOL Instant Message, ICQ, IRC, Usenet, LiveJournal, MySpace, on and on.

Most of these aren't even properly "dead", many I just.mentioned still have big user groups too. They just lost a critical user share when folks moved on.

Actually, I think I'm kinda okay with the "death" of social media. I mean, I'm already on this platform a lot, so...I guess I'm not missing much?

Hopefully it's just the death of surveillance and fake news infested social media with censors ensuring you don't deviate from the Overton window.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In Wired, Jason Parham writes about how first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.

Indeed, millennials have soured on the big social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram feel dead.

There's a lot of ways to feel about this: maybe relief, maybe anger at the companies who messed things up.

But Parham made me feel something different: sad.

He points out that "first-gen" users (like me) were part of a "golden age of connectivity," and for those years, it really was exciting.

I'm sad that golden age is over, and I'm not sure we'll ever experience anything like it again.

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Um, FIDOnet and USEnet were pretty awesome, thank you.

I was on some network that rose after MySpace but before Facebook and realized that wasn't for me.

Censorship and Centralized manner killed all the goodness.

The Wired article in question: https://www.wired.com/story/first-gen-social-media-users-have-nowhere-to-go/