Do people care?

This week I am writing about something I have noticed -and I am surely not the only one- that I find quite annoying. We have all different kind of applications on our smartphone with various functions, suited to pass the time and keep in touch with our friends. The thing that always drew me to these apps was the fact that you had a different app for everything, and it became a sort of ritual to check them in the morning and before going to bed. It was a great way to see what everybody had been up to that day. The apps I am referring to are Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. I used every single one for different things.

The thing that these apps now all have in common are ‘stories’. These are sequences of pictures and ten seconds lasting videos users can upload and share with their friends. This was originally a Snapchat-thing until Instagram copied it. At the beginning I was sceptical. But then I realised that Instagram made a good decision introducing this because it is an excellent way of showing pictures you think are worth sharing, but not that important to have on your feed for a longer period.

Anyways, when Facebook introduced stories I was sure this could never work. I think Facebook should stay fun, but it is also used for serious things like work and school and I for one am not pleased with people posting the littlest thing on their mind. My list of friends on Facebook is way more extensive than on Instagram or Snapchat. Not everything I do or every picture I take is important enough to share with this range of people, who can be employers for example. It works in the opposite direction too. I don’t wish to be informed in the same way about my friends on Facebook as I do about my friends on Instagram and Snapchat.

I am sure that I am not the only one with this opinion and I wonder if Facebook will delete this or not as I have not seen any positive comments on this so far. The simple question that the people from Facebook should be asking their selves is ‘Do people care?’ because frankly, I don’t think we do.
This was my last blog post about topics I find interesting in my field of study, Communication Sciences. Thank you for reading and following!