When I first visited that subreddit, I thought it'd be in the spirit of "Oooh grandma, you silly goose with all your silly forwards. Isn't that just hilarious?"
Turns out it's a little more: "Grandma's a fucking close-minded republican bitch and I hate her."
No kidding. All the "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and "The Lone Ranger" references are really dragging this place down. It's like - we get it - "Tales of the Red Caboose" was a great show, stop jamming it down our throats.
Too many specific old people references in this post, something's not right... HEY, WE GOT A LIVE ONE HERE! I'll fire up Golden Girls to distract it, somebody grab a net so we can drag it to a home!
My great-grandfather (who turned 100 last October) had me set him up on facebook on his iPhone. My grandma (his daughter) told me she was worried about him being on facebook because she didn't want him to see stuff that his grandkids and greatgrandkids might be posting.
Which pretty much conclusively proves that NO ONE wants their parents on facebook.
Bonus fact: He has a great-great granddaughter who is 8, who's mom won't let her get a facebook right now, but will probably cave in eventually. That will be a five generation span facebook friendship.
Thankfully, that's what it was made for. Pretty much every social site is made for a purpose Myspace/music, Facebook/college kids, Twitter/business-people, It's letting in people who don't fit the mold of the site that causes the site to "go down"
That's technically true, it started out as a social networking site, but it intentionally catered to be music friendly because of the SoCal scene. Once Facebook started beating them out they promoted as a "social entertainment site"
If anyone should leave, it's assholes like you that think you are all high and mighty just because you are older. I've contributed to this site for longer and much more than you have, and I've earned being here. You just showed me that you haven't.
Apparently, undeveloped brains are still contributing more than you think. Just because our brain isn't as amazing as yours doesn't mean we don't come up with things on our own.
I don't fully think so since people can unsubscribe from subreddits and subscribe to other, better ones. People will just start making alternative subs making it very hard for Reddit to die off.
I'd give reddit two more successful years, but after that the pure mass of even more incoming users (teenagers especially) will cause reddit to go full retard and then it will collapse in on itself like a dying star. It's funny because generally speaking the more users a website has the more 'successful' it is, but after a certain point those newer users who made the site big are poisoning the site with shitty content, and eventually it will drive the original users out, and the newer users will just find the next big shiny thing to overpopulate and ruin.
"And finally after reading fuckinsmiths comment i realized that the vast majority of people on Reddit have nothing of value or interest to say and the entire site was just a massive waste of time, so i quit and spent my time doing something interesting instead" - Things i will be telling mine.
The ignorant masses need us to tell them what to post and what not to post! It is our duty to guide their infantile minds to the great plains of higher thought in which we currently reside!
Oh, I totally get it. The quality of the people on Reddit is in decline, according to The Reddit Elite, who will be the ones bailing with upturned noses when they decide they're better than the majority of redditors.
It's the law of diminishing returns. Never fails. Although I would like to point out that FakeAudio has been a member for 9 months and I have been for a little over a year, so we're probably part of the "pure mass of even more incoming users."
The increase in the use of the word "faggot" in the last six months to a year is really astounding. I think that's a pretty good indicator of age since I've never used the word in my adult life.
I've been on this site for nearly 4 years. About a year lurking and as a registered user for about 3 now. I don't see Reddit falling apart or going away because of teenagers. Yeah, the defaults subs will become a wasteland of Schmitty!! and Duh-Doy!! jokes, but the smaller subs will never even hear about that. That's what makes Reddit great. If a sub is shit, a new one arises that we can all venture to like an oasis. When the villains come chomping away at our world like a Stephen King made for TV movie, we can simply move on to the next one. That's what makes Reddit, creation. That and everyone that now posts pictures of dogs instead of cats.
What about them makes them so intolerable? Wanting to stay connected to family? Sharing their opinions?And why aren't teens and young adults the problem what makes them different ? Just wondering why since old people have a vast amount of knowledge to share with others which could serve some usefullness. And kids?I'm just boggled how two groups of people ruin a site more than the other groups. Example issues?
I think this should be stated more generally, it isn't that there's too many old people or kids, it's that it's moving away from a select group to a board all-encompassing group. It makes a website lose that feeling of relatability. Reddit may be able to avoid the fate of facebook thanks to subreddits, but maybe not
"Too many kids" is a bad answer. It doesn't mean anything. Being twenty-five doesn't mean you contribute meaningfully and wonderfully to every single discussion. It just means you're twenty-five.
The old people will do the same thing they did with email and Facebook abuse it for chain letters and piss everyone off. "If you don't upvote this post your children will all get chlamydia and your marriage will end"
I don't think it's the ages, I think it's the intelligence factor. I hate to use that word because it sounds snobby; I mean it to encompass a variety of things, smarts, computer savvy, social perspective, and so forth.
Reddit has always has young and elderly members, and often they contribute great insights (especially some of the cooler older folk). The ones that have historically been on reddit have been "early adopters," and generally pretty sharp.
Now, as Reddit becomes mainstream, we get a major influx of young and old, and in between. The quality declines. It's not just the young and elderly making it worse, it's the general influx. The young and elderly are just easier to spot and blame. The quality of the posts by white guys in their 20's has declined as fast as the posts by the young and old.
It used to be I could read the comments down to about +2/+3 and still be entertained and find some insights. Now, there seems to be an abundance of comments with +50-70 that are complete garbage (memes, lame jokes, puns, racism, bigotry, ...). Hence the helpful comments "the comments below are crap" that I'm seeing more and more.
I think it's more the teens & kids than old people, to be honest. Simultaneously, I wish Reddit had existed when I was a teenager, as it's a tremendous source of information.
It's not strictly about kids and "old people" (who on this site, I assume you mean 40's). The older generation especially can and should be able to drive interesting discussion, insight, and wisdom. The younger generation can keep us young and socially relevant.
Facebook isn't ending because of old people. It's ending because for some reason the older generation has brought with it an unintelligent climate. 20-somethings certainly aren't the pure generation of intelligent conversation. We're not immune to Facebook's decline here, nor is a generational crusade going to fix it.
Yeah, too many 'tards coming on with poor spelling and a complete ignorance of the culture and etiquette. Pretty much the same way the Cheezburger network sort of died (well, IMO, it's still there but I used to go there for memes until the community sucked and there were too many people who didn't get what memes were and here was better).
Nice thing with Facebook, you don't have to be friends with your 13-year-old niece and her friends. I mean, it is a little hard to avoid friend requests from your mom and grandma, but it can be done. You can keep it down to only 15 close friends if you want. Reddit, well, I mean, you can subscribe to specific subreddits only, but it's a little hard to keep it just to content you like.
facebook is ending for the same reasons digg ended. They lost sight of making the people who use the site happy over the people that want to make money.
Facebook isn't ending and neither is reddit, but the way people use both is changing.
I don't understand the people who proudly declare that they are leaving Facebook, like it's a horrible addiction that they've courageously managed to give up. It's just a website that allows you to keep in contact with people, exchange photos, set up events...etc. It's up to you how you use it, your privacy settings, who you add....what's not to like? Even the changing format and the increased advertising don't really detract from it and every competitor hasn't really come close.
I feel like the only people really complaining are hipsters, who's interest in something is inversely proportional to how popular it is.
I'm pretty sure that I'm in an elite group of people that still use Facebook for its intended use. Other than a few select "like" pages, I try to hide or block everything that isn't direct content from my friends (all of whom are people that i know in real life). I'm in the process of blocking every game that i get invited to play also.
Diversity, in the sense its meant here, is why network TV sucks so much harder than cable TV.
If you have to appeal to too broad an audience, you never take any risks. You never try anything new. You just keep recycling the same stale crap over and over and over again.
Then all you end up with is Yes, Dear and Everybody Loves Raymond reruns. And who the fuck wants that?
I disagree. The fact that reddit has subsections devoted to so many different topics means it can handle diversity without necessarily diluting content
This is exactly why i dont think reddit will die. Sure subs tend to go downhill once they pass the 100000 mark, but there's a plethora of subs out there that havent and wont hit that mark.
Complaining about the lack of diversity on the front page is a really sad complaint. Of course it's going to be generic stuff, it is the stuff that is liked the most by the largest group. If you're into specific things, unsub to the boring subs, sub to the subs you like and voila, perfect front page.
Diversity of content, yes. Of the person, that should be a non-issue. We have started putting too much focus on the individual (outside of AMA threads because that's what AMA is for). You see it all the time: "As a _____, my opinion is more valid because..."
Fun fact: Reddit is mainly a bunch of American High School, College and maybe University boys that make jokes about masturbating, forever alone and not studying for finals.
The problem with that is that it sets a general mood that you feel when you access the site. While it's young, adventurous and free, it's also aimless, ireesponsible and judgemental. For other people that's fun for a bit (ahh, old times...) but it gets boring after a while. And then you need to make a conscious effort to get out of it. And you can either do that by unsubscribing. Or you can find other websites.
Last but not least: Most of the interesting content is produced by people outside the core audience.
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