Brandon Hall@ultimape I suspect that among many younger people there's now an implicit belief that for one to exist socially, one must signal their existence via posts to social media, and as social media services tend to be ordered in a reverse chronological manner and many people are of this understanding and wish to socially exist, many post at increasingly faster rates, driving up depreciation rates on posts and driving down the likelihood that any one post will be seen or interacted with, β«anxiety.
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πͺπππ© π@bthall I tend to frame it more in terms of immediacy of the interaction + falloff. I think its close fit to your observation.
This always comes to mind on the topic:
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html
Another factor: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram all seem to be subject to some form of algorithmic hiding too. Combines with tendency to prefer popular posts (gotta hit those engagement targets) & it further increases polarity -> sense of existence.
Maltimore@ultimape An unmentioned aspect of that graph that gets me is that the frequency of interruptions, or at least the prompting of potential interruptions, by itself isn't exactly the issue β the issue is that we *are* interrupted by such prompts. I suspect that this emerges from a sense that we need to respond to people's messages to us, due to this being a *"social"* medium and not an impersonal medium.