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"Helped by unparalleled moments of cool at the height of the pandemic.... winning the battle for the “sweet spot” of social media users, those in the 18- to 25
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
"Helped by unparalleled moments of cool at the height of the
pandemic.... winning the battle for the “sweet spot” of social media
users, those in the 18- to 25-year-old demographic.... becoming
increasingly addictive. Despite the platform supposedly being
restricted to those aged 13 and over.... Meta’s tactics aim to exploit
the suspicion...."
What will historians 200 years in the future make of this? Will they
understand the sub-texts of the article celebrating addiction, youth
anomie, and struggle of grubby tech drug-lords for the most precious
years our children's lives sucked into the mindless, involuted
phenomena it describes?
- eimrine 5y agoI suppose that they will envy us. What a happy creatures we were, we can watch the tiktok or not to watch, we can agree with all kinds of surveillance or not agree, also we can use cash, not to use any social networks and spend at least several days being miles away from any connected device.
- nonrandomstring 5y agoI think they will definitely not envy us. Either we'll escape a technological dystopia, recover our dignity humanity, and hope. In which case future generations will somewhat pity us, much as we think of the impoverished classes crushed by the wheels of the Victorian phase of industrial revolution. Or they won't think anything at all. In the "future" many of us here suppose (fear or wish?) is coming, there won't be any "envy". That would require the ability to feel, to have an emotional life.