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I suspect this will right itself. The next generation are always hardwired to revolt against the previous ones - and they take all existing tech as the norm -
by mtkd 9y ago
I suspect this will right itself.
The next generation are always hardwired to revolt against the previous ones - and they take all existing tech as the norm - so it's not massively interestingly/revolutionary.
Millennials may well be peak social/online tech - as subsequent gens switch off and start to rediscover what it is like to feel/smell/buy clothes from a real shop and use a pencil/paper/desk light to design something.
Why would they opt-in to being tracked/profiled/segmented/targeted while contributing free social content to megacorps 24/7?
- anotheryou 9y agoI don't think so. The revolt is not to use facebook, but snapchat instead; it's not using tin-can phones. Highly optimized to be addictive to the average consumer, you'd have to be well schooled or an oddball otherwise not to fall for it. I for example hate facebook and I'm far from addiction, but in my social sphere I need it for instant messaging and events. So not even someone who hates a service is safe from using it (or at least the costs of not using it are real enough that in many scenarios the hate against it is not enough).
- baq 9y agoExactly. Facebook should be an utility, not a media/advertising company they say they are.