From a user perspective: why do you want to participate in this kind of thing?
I get why this is good for the platform. For me (1985) it seems to have zero value. I feel old more and more.
I get why this is good for the platform. For me (1985) it seems to have zero value. I feel old more and more.
And the "return to the platform daily" thing is overstated - that's like saying a chat program makes people return to it regularly by delivering messages. It's technically right but shows a complete misunderstanding of how and why it's used.
1975. But very immature.
This was mostly filled by Snapchat stories, where you could share exactly that without having to fear to spam people because it's time-limited, everyone does it and it's a very casual format. This feature was basically copied by instagram and is a success for the same reasons, expect nobody uses snapchat stories anymore.
Source: I have young siblings and I kinda use that stuff as well, although not that much.
But where is the serious conversation gone? Did we share our latest meal in the forums back then? No. Where do the young people get their information when they are serious about sth?
I'm not really into sharing this info either, but I find it refreshing to see what my friends far away are currently doing and often use it as a possibility to connect with them.
Serious conversation happens on FB or here or Reddit.
If you seriously think this is bad or something, then think of it as roughly analogous to the old finger command, where we'd all put random status things and ASCII art in our .plan files.
Stories is pretty much this feature, just done much better.