I have an addiction to Twitter, but I am the first to admit that top-quality tweets are one in a million in my timeline.
The big advantage is that I follow so many different kind of people at once that there is a HUGE diversity of infos.
On the contrary, I follow very specific topics on Reddit. And as far as I am concerned, the quality of info is top-level, and the signal/noise ratio is VERY good.
Regarding Facebook, I mostly only follow [dedicated] groups now. And once again, the signal/noise ratio is much better.
Conclusion: apart from Twitter, social media are all back to being fancy Usenet clones :)
I took a 2 year break from Facebook. It just got to be too much. I just rejoined, as kids' schools send messaging and announcements regularly there and other groups of local interest use it to coordinate. Outside of that, no one is posting anything but meme reshares that echo 1990s email forwards.
On the contrary, I follow very specific topics on Reddit. And as far as I am concerned, the quality of info is top-level, and the signal/noise ratio is VERY good.
Regarding Facebook, I mostly only follow [dedicated] groups now. And once again, the signal/noise ratio is much better.
Conclusion: apart from Twitter, social media are all back to being fancy Usenet clones :)