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An aside, this seems to be a recurring theme: Kids don’t feel like they have anonymity/a way for something not to last anymore, so they are searching out ways t
by aerophilic 7y ago
An aside, this seems to be a recurring theme:
Kids don’t feel like they have anonymity/a way for something not to last anymore, so they are searching out ways to get it.
I recall this being something that came up as SnapChat being valuable for, letting stuff be ephemeral.
The good part of this is kids being kids, they find ways, but I am curious if anyone else have found different examples of this type of behavior?
The only other equivalent I have seen is the large “group texts” movement for connectivity (with associated Bitmoji/memes etc)
Edit: Replaced WhatsApp with SnapChat, thanks for the correction! (Shows how out of touch I am on this stuff)
- dillonmckay 7y agoSnapchat? I still see the majority of college-aged and younger using it consistently.
- faissaloo 7y agoInstagram's taken alot of that userbase
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoIt has, but at least anecdotally, a lot of people I know still use snapchat.
- dillonmckay 7y agoNot really. That is older adults, 22+. Their userbase is getting older.
- neilv 7y agoAnonymous/pseudonymous media -- and sociopathic behavior in same -- was a thing well before dotcoms created the modern surveillance society. Also, children are not good critical thinkers, and will be dragged along through a series of supposed disruptive media introductions that are mostly just different veneers on exploiting them in familiar ways.