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To be honest, the ability to effortlessly repel Zoomers strikes me as a feature, not a bug.
by EA-3167 3y ago
To be honest, the ability to effortlessly repel Zoomers strikes me as a feature, not a bug.
- spike021 3y agoI don't see what this has to do with Zoomers, to be honest. If we're going to bring up generations, I'm a millennial who basically grew up on IRC and vBulletin forums. In fact, I'm still a fairly active participant in IRC, and I am definitely one in a vBulletin based board for a certain car. But I vastly prefer the experience of having a central place of communities like Reddit for all its problems. Moderation system tends to be consistent, you don't get random changes by negligent administrators adding full screen ads that can get past ad blockers, knowledge/discussion isn't ephemeral like it is on IRC (sure you can log but not everyone likes or wants to for various reasons).
- hospitalJail 3y agoWe are already doing it. We are becoming the old dudes making fun of the next generation. Right on time. Better to say things like: Young people are too idealistic or have a different sense of humor. They learn from us, not the other way around.
- EA-3167 3y agoI don't want to make fun of them, I just have no desire to socialize with them. I frankly think it's weirder to be a man in his 40's who wants to spend their digital day with 17 year olds.
- hospitalJail 3y agoIf you consider yourself a teacher, its no big deal. Socrates might have been talking to adults, but students were watching.
- EA-3167 3y agoI try not to compare myself to Socrates, or delude myself into thinking that most social media is about teaching.
- imtringued 3y agoAs someone who spent some time on IRC as a teen surrounded by people in their 20s and 30s. It actually is.
- fluidcruft 3y agogetoffmy.net seems to be available