Well, well, well. Don’t we have some exciting stuff going on this summer?
Several years ago we had the launch of G+ during summer — a new playground for the EME6414 class (although the rollout was uneven, so not everyone could play).
And this year we have Threads, which comes to us from Meta and is tied to your Instagram account.
I read about Threads this past week.
[CNN story that gives a decent overview: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/tech/instagram-threads-app-explained/index.html ]
[The kind of stories I’ve been seeing that are just cracking me up, because oh the drama!: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-calls-mark-zuckerberg-a-cuck-as-threads-nears-100m-users]
I debated if I really wanted to try another tool right now, especially one that is being compared to Twitter, which kind of exhausts me IYKWIM.
Well, reader, I took the plunge:
I signed up. At the last minute I opted to use my EME6414 Insta account and not my personal one. I figured that would make it easier for y’all to find me on there if you wanted to interact, and it would give me time to think about who or what (or IF) I want to be on there as me.
Account initialized and … within about .5 seconds I regretted my choice to sign up. I was immediately presented with a screen that looked like any other social media feed, filled with posts from people I don’t know. And they were crude posts, my friends. Including dick jokes, solicitations, and an image of a woman sitting atop a flying eggplant. First impressions …
So, I pondered whether or not Threads will become a pseudo porn hub. I countered the thought with the knowledge that it’s new, the porn industry pioneered most online technologies (ask me about my days working in VR/head mounted displays in the 1990s), and maybe I need to find my peeps and tailor my feed.
I searched for “teaching” and found … not what I wanted, really.
Then I searched for “FSU” and found some of the regular FSU accounts.
The COE is on there already! I liked their first post. So did the FSU business school. Seems they both got right on there and are trying to figure out how they’ll use this space.
And then I decided to really leave my own mark, and write my first post. Here it is:
So, what happens next?
I just wrote my post about Threads this week. I haven’t joined since I am already not a Twitter fan. I was hoping it hadn’t gone off the deep end quite yet, but it has. Hopefully, there is still time to save it and keep it on a more positive and safe note than Twitter has been.
ReplyDeleteThis gave me a good laugh. Thanks for trying it for those of us not brave enough to try. I'll save the flying eggplants for another day!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your honestly, it made me laugh out loud in Panera Bread!
ReplyDeleteI have not explored Threads and probably won't make an account. I am very interested in learning about it though, since apparently it is the fastest platform that has reached 1 million users. I haven't verified this information yet. I saw this image (https://www.reddit.com/r/ThreadsApp/comments/14upxji/threads_is_fastest_platform_to_reach_1_million/) on Reddit and would like to know why so many jumped on the Threads wagon (I won't call it bandwagon, yet!).
Thanks for sharing!