I'm getting really sick of Facebook. I've known for years how bad it was, but stayed because of the people. After watching some recent documentaries I've seen how truly terrible social media has become, and every day it just gets worse. This platform on the other hand has been extremely positive and I am resolving to spend less time on web 2 and even more time building web 3.
I've been building websites since middle school when I used places like fortunecity and geocities. The old web was a much different place, there was no Google to search, and search engines rarely provided accurate results. It was a lot of browsing and discovering, and there wasn't much e-commerce at the time. If a website was selling something you had to contact them and do credit card over the phone.
One thing I really think is still underused is that few Hive users are offering any products or services for Hive Dollars. I hope this will change as more usrrs decide to treat this seriously. If we had hive when we were building the web pages of 1997, things would be much different. When you think about it we are still missing the simple payments method the internet promised us.
A few things about this, there is a hive campaign on Twitter to attract new users. I suggest sharing hive stories you upvote on the socials with an extra sign up link. I might just end up just posting even more often on here, and sharing these stories to my feed. I think we are all sort of feeling the same way, social media is seriously effecting us.
I saw a trailer today for another netflix show taking about the dark side of social media. I hope it helps people realize that it's not good for them. While I want to unplug completely I feel like there is still some value in the social networks, but only if we use it intentionally and not let it use us. We are influenced every day by all these algorithms.
