Is social media hurting the great outdoors experience?

[matechakeric]

Way more fishing pressure on the Erie & Ontario trib steelhead than I've ever seen before (then I see YouTube videos and Instagram posts featuring steelhead and it all makes sense). Everyone is hunting coues deer now - pre social media few people even knew that was a thing.

I've also heard social media is making some of Earth's best kept secrets crowded with visitors.

Is it all cyclical and the interest will die off or will it only get worse?

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

In my opinion the answer is yes it is hurting. To be fair though social media seems to be having negative impacts on society as a whole

 

[Trial153]

Yes

 

[timmy]

Yes it’s like watching a train wreck. It’s going to get worse.

 

[timmy]

If it is something you enjoy and would like to do again then don’t post specifics on the internet. Simple as that. The ship has sailed unfortunately and there is no turning back.

 

[longbow51]

Social media ruins whatever it touches. Before selfies were the rage, if you found a place to catch big trout, you kept your mouth shut.

Now it seems like catching the fish is secondary to posing with said fish on Instagram, FB, etc.

 

[geetar]

I think the ones I have the most problem with are the social media influencer types that use public lands and waters to boost their own egos with likes and comments without considering that the resource might not be able to handle the amount of attention they are attracting to it.

 

[TheTone]

I think the ones I have the most problem with are the social media influencer types that use public lands and waters to boost their own egos with likes and comments without considering that the resource might not be able to handle the amount of attention they are attracting to it.

Gotta get those likes to keep the sponsors (real or imagined) happy and the paychecks coming in

 

[hank4elk]

Those folks will be selling off all their camping gear & such in a year or two. Too much "work" involved they will realize and go back to video games & B&B's.

 

[noharleyyet]

Google 'the impact of social media on self awareness' ...

 

[MTGamecock]

Social media ruins whatever it touches. Before selfies were the rage, if you found a place catch big trout, you kept your mouth shut.

Now it seems like catching the fish is secondary to posing with said fish on Instagram, FB, etc.

Bingo.

 

[LopeHunter]

Those folks will be selling off all their camping gear & such in a year or two. Too much "work" involved they will realize and go back to video games & B&B's.

I have never been on an easy, remote adventure. You have to have a crap ton of decent gear, know how to use that gear proficiently. SUV to get down the gravel road then two-track with slick mud, ruts and boulders. Woodsman skills to pick decent spot for a tent. Enjoy being away from a shower and toilet. Maybe get rained on or snowed on. Oh, need tags, licenses and permits.

Now if a paved road goes right by your honey hole with a hotel 15 minutes away then honey hole may not mean what you think it means.

 

[hank4elk]

Google 'the impact of social media on self awareness' ...

I am aware I would never do such a foolish thing...

 

[hank4elk]

I have never been on an easy, remote adventure. You have to have a crap ton of decent gear, know how to use that gear proficiently. SUV to get down the gravel road then two-track with slick mud, ruts and boulders. Woodsman skills to pick decent spot for a tent. Enjoy being away from a shower and toilet. Maybe get rained on or snowed on. Oh, need tags, licenses and permits.

Now if a paved road goes right by your honey hole with a hotel 15 minutes away then honey hole may not mean what you think it means.

Whats a paved road?

 

[np307]

I grew up with social media and I've watched it morph over the years as it has been monetized for influencers and content creators. But I remember being young and catching fish and being told not to tell anyone where we caught them. When I started hunting I definitely wasn't going to tell someone where I was finding deer.

Last year, in a statewide Facebook hunting group a guy posted a picture of a really nice deer he killed on the game lands. He took the picture next to the trailhead sign. He received nothing for this other than likes on the picture. I just don't understand.

 

[noharleyyet]

Whats a paved road?

You ever been to Logan NM hank?

 

[TimeOnTarget]

Not only does it hurt, It's down right annoying. I've quit hunting with some people because of their need to always be taking pictures and posting everything. At first I thought I was being petty to be bothered by it. Then I realized a guy only gets so many hunting seasons in his life. Why put up with that?

 

[TimeOnTarget]

Those folks will be selling off all their camping gear & such in a year or two. Too much "work" involved they will realize and go back to video games & B&B's.

Not if they get enough "likes"

 

[marshman]

How and when is ok, never where.
What ever happened to that kind of thinking?

 

[hank4elk]

You ever been to Logan NM hank?

Yeah but I blinked at the right time...