Im currently trying to get a collection of public opinion on current social media. Tell me what your biggest issues are with the current state of social media. If you are willing, also tell me what specific things you hate about which ones.
AI slop is turning attention away from the feed, and without attention these feeds will die. Attention is the oxygen of social feeds, and people come to pay attention to other people. Not brands, or what Claude can cobble together.
So more content, but less attention and trust in it, which is a recipe of disaster if you are a social media newsfeed.
companies and users rewarding AI or outright fake content to run riot on the platforms.
Unrelated people popping up with their content and adds.
I don't seem to see my friends post. Some I don't see until a week later after they posted.
My biggest issue with social media is all the videos every woman I see using a filter. Do people not understand how bad that is for their own mental health. When I was on social media I never used a filter on me or my kids.
Nazis.
- Instagram: not a lot of gripes at the moment, other than that their owner company is too pro-AI and this will probably come back to bite them
- TikTok: It hasn't evolved and Insta is eating its lunch. A lot of the content is now truly brainrot (not just 'kids are doing something different to what I did in my day therefore bad' but honestly it's just zero calorie media with no community or unique culture like there used to be). Even many of the sounds I'm seeing on big tiktoks are predate the peak in 2020 which just feels stale at this point. They also serve up a concerning amount of cooker videos, which could easily send people down a radicalisation hole and there's no excuse that they don't know the harm of that in 2026
- Reddit: It's full of ragebait and negativity. I did an audit once and something like 15 of the 20 posts in my feed were just things designed to make me feel worse about the world, whether it be people venting about unsolvable problems, videos where there's a clear 'villain' in a regular social situation (eg videos of people being asshole drivers), pop culture subs hating on celebrities for minor flubs, "this country is falling apart" posts etc etc
- Facebook: Once again an issue with policing radicalisation content. I mostly use the community groups there now and for god knows what reason Facebook now allows people to post/comment anonymously in those and the anonymous users are 99% of the time spreading white supremacist content or trying to troll. Facebook also keeps trying to offer me white supremacist content on my feed even though I never interact with that kind of content, much of it clearly targeted at people in my country but clearly run by bot farms overseas. Billion dollar companies should be held to a higher standard than this.
- Tumblr: The app/site is buggy and sadly the community has grown a bit stale, as quirky "am I joking or mentally ill" style posts seems to be the dominant style these days instead of truly creative or interesting contributions.
- Twitter: The whole appeal was that the glitterati were there - the media, celebrities, actors, musicians, journalists, authors, scientists, artists. Plus your friends were probably there too. Everyone you wanted to talk to, you had a direct line to their thoughts and if you're lucky you could even interact with them. Now all of them have been chased off the site, what exactly is the selling point?
From the creator side all of them are hellish. I've been a creator/contributor to all these platforms and I don't think there's a single one that hasn't at some point locked me out of my account for no reason or taken down popular posts that were completely innoculous. And god help you if you then try to seek support from one of these companies, it's like talking to a brick wall, only it's a brick wall that has a big sign flashing "invest all your time and money here for fame and fortune!".
There is not a flow of reciprocal community as much anymore. The asset of our attention is being guided toward our own interests in nefarious ways that are hard to break from- so it’s less rewarding to see what a friend is up to than to watch a funny reel about something you relate to.
Just like wealth has accumulated toward a small percentage- the asset of attention is being garnished the same way. Not to mention anyone in the workforce, or raising children is overwhelmed with responsibility and is often hiding from life when online scrolling - therefore not as likely to engage with real friends. I do it to : / We are all overwhelmed and now…
There’s ai posts flooding everywhere, sometimes I don’t know if a story is real and someone needs relating to - or it’s a bot or disingenuous human fishing for engagement. I’m teetering on the edge of what’s the point of it all anymore.
Social media is stopping people from knowing how to make a conversation flow in person. Everything is one sided. You watch a video of a person talking. The person is talking at you (camera). You the viewer either respond with a comment back or you keep scrolling. For some people this is the only form on social interaction they get. No back and fourth.
Too much engagement bait not enough interesting discussion. Also too many people impossible to make friends.
I found I dint like how I'd see sth sad followed by sth funny and that was confusing my brain. To be sad or to laugh. Around 20/21 so I left.
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I've been absolutely obsessed with short form content for the last two years. Like people have staged actual interventions about my health level of obsessed. I'm talking 11-14 hour days breaking down what separates successful videos from failures, experimenting with different hook variations, rewriting scripts until my brain hurts, testing every editing approach I could possibly get my hands on. Why this level of obsession? Because I'm absolutely certain short form video is the backbone of everything right now. Growing followers, selling anything, generating opportunities, creating brands from nothing. Every part of it depends on whether you can hold someone's attention for 30 seconds. But here's what nearly made me quit entirely: despite the constant daily grind, nothing was hitting. I'd pour 7-8 hours into crafting one video only to watch it crash at 300 views. Tried every tactic from every person claiming to have figured it out. Bought their courses. Applied their "proven" methods. Still going nowhere. I seriously started thinking maybe I'm just not the type of person who can make this work. Like maybe there's some fundamental ability I'm completely lacking. Then something clicked. I'm grinding constantly, but I'm operating completely blind. I don't actually know what's broken. I'm essentially just trying random things hoping something eventually works. So I stopped hunting for some mythical viral code and started analyzing actual data. Analyzed my last 50 videos second by second, documented every retention drop, and discovered 5 consistent patterns that were systematically killing my performance: 1. **Vague mysterious hooks are totally invisible** "This will transform you..." gets scrolled past every time. But "I used resistance bands for 55 days and my shoulder mobility actually decreased" stops people mid scroll. Specific concrete details destroy vague teasing without exception. 2. **Seconds 5-7 are where everything gets decided** Most viewers leave between 4-7 seconds if you haven't proven it's worth watching. I was creating slow buildups like a complete amateur. Now my strongest visual or most compelling number arrives exactly at second 5. That's where the hook that genuinely holds people. 3. **Any gap beyond 1 second absolutely kills your retention** Tracked this obsessively, anything past 1.2 seconds makes people think the video stopped. What feels like natural comfortable pacing to you reads as complete dead time to someone scrolling. Cut significantly tighter than feels normal. 4. **Visual variety is absolutely critical** If nothing changes on screen for more than 3 seconds, attention vanishes without warning. I started constantly rotating camera angles, cutting to b-roll, moving text placement, literally anything to maintain constant visual movement. Went from losing 50% at the halfway mark to keeping 70%. 5. **Rewatch rate is dramatically more important than most people realize** Videos people watch more than once get pushed exponentially harder by the algorithm. Started planting subtle details that aren't obvious first viewing, editing faster, adding elements worth discovering on rewatch. Rewatch percentage jumped from 8% to 31% and reach went completely through the roof. Honestly the biggest shift was abandoning all guesswork and actually measuring what was happening at every second. Came across this one app that goes way beyond showing where people drop off, it literally tells you why and exactly how to correct it. That's when everything transformed. Went from averaging 300 views to hitting 18k in about 4 weeks. Regular analytics show you people are leaving. This one shows the exact second, the actual reason, and what to adjust before your next post. If you're uploading consistently but stuck below 1k views, your content isn't the problem. You just don't know what's genuinely working versus what you assume is working. Listen, I'm sharing this because breaking through was honestly one of the hardest things I've tackled. I really wish someone had just explained exactly what needed fixing when I was stuck there. Would have saved months of confusion and doubt. So that's what I'm doing now for anyone who needs it.