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Your example has nothing to do with fast-changing times and has everything to do with tech companies monopolizing social media with zero regulation. The proble
by tolbish 6y ago
Your example has nothing to do with fast-changing times and has everything to do with tech companies monopolizing social media with zero regulation.
The problem isn't that you need a smartphone now. The problem is that access to local businesses is now locked behind proprietary walled gardens.
- olivertaylor 6y agoI disagree. It is the business owners who are requiring their customers to use social media, not the social media companies. That same business would just as easily only accept cash and not have any website or social media at all.
- ryandrake 6y agoYea, that croissant place, I would just stop going there if they required you to use Instagram in order to know their hours. Like, what does Instagram have to do with pastries? And for the haircut place: If their credit card processor goes down, they should tell you before providing service that they are cash-only, or just take an imprint of the credit card to charge later, like we did back a few decades ago. That still works. Almost every question about how the world could work without social media and apps can be answered with: "Well, how did it work before social media and apps?"
- olivertaylor 6y agoTrue. The world worked without all this for a very long time.