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For those who were on EP: How have your posting and commenting habits changed from what they were on EP?

On EP, the default setting showed posts from friends, experience groups we had joined, and the Question of the Day. The only questions that showed up were questions from friends. We could always opt to see all the questions or all the stories being posted, or if we wanted to check out questions on a particular topic, we could do that too.

But on SW, we can either see all the posts (unless we’ve opted out of viewing adult material), or we can see posts from only friends (which is a bit too narrow for me), or we can see all the posts from our friends, all our experience groups, and all the question topic groups that we've posted questions in as well (unless we choose to view only stories, which would mean we would see no questions). I usually choose this last setting, as it seems to be the most reasonable middle ground available, but I still end up having to wade through, or scroll past, all kinds of inane posts.

On EP, I responded to almost all the posts that showed up in my feed on the default setting, because they were almost always posts that interested me. But on SW, I find that I’m much more picky about which posts I respond to. It’s frustrating sometimes to have to look through so much crap before finally finding something worth looking at. But I keep at it, a little bit each day.

If my posting habits have changed, it’s because there are different things going on in my life now, and the stuff that I had posted about on EP is now old news. Also, the last presidential election got a lot of people (including me) talking about politics, which, believe it or not, I usually don’t talk about too much.


So how have your posting and commenting habits changed, and why?
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MartinII · 70-79, M
My recollection is that on EP we got a summary showing not only friends’ posts, but also their comments. Is that right? Certainly I find it much more difficult to keep up with friends on SW than I did on EP. I don’t think my posting habits have changed much, but in commenting I seek out a few friends whom I think will have interesting things to say.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@MartinII I think that on EP, when we checked out our friends' activity, it showed a lot more. It showed not only what they had posted, and commented on, it also showed whom they had added to their circles, and the groups they had just joined. I'm not sure if it showed what they had hearted, but it showed what we had hearted in our own activity.

But yes, it's much harder to keep up with friends here because of all the junk we have to wade through. If I want to keep up with my friends' posts, I need to either look through each friend's profile, or adjust my feed so it shows only posts from friends. But I wouldn't want it on that setting all the time.