Social Media and the Effects of Context Collapse
<p>Long before I stumbled upon the phrase “context collapse,” I witnessed the paradigm shift of younger users <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-lost-15-million-us-users-in-the-past-two-years-report-says/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">abandoning social media stalwarts like Facebook </a>or Twitter for, at the time, smaller, more “artisanal” platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook soon became the site used to check-in with your parents or post an important announcement like a pregnancy or new home.</p>
<p>What caused the exodus? Was it just the typical lifecycle of a social media site, and Facebook was going the way of Friendster and Myspace? I don’t believe so.</p>
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