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Moderately, or at least, not socially dead. Only played video games on weekends, including a Minecraft server with friends, which in hindsight still became a bi
by hot_gril 2y ago
Moderately, or at least, not socially dead. Only played video games on weekends, including a Minecraft server with friends, which in hindsight still became a bit of an addiction I would've been better without. I was popular in college, and I did have a phone then but barely used it. Having a Facebook account mattered in college purely for class groups, events, and group chats where people coordinated stuff. One thing I don't know is what replaced that (if anything).
So basically, having a PC at home was more than enough.
- jader201 2y agoAnother factor is how long ago we’re talking, too. 2024 is quite a bit different vs., for example, 10 years ago.
- hot_gril 2y agoHS was 10 years ago, college was after. Since 7th grade, most kids had smartphones and were using them all hours of the day. Most people used Facebook, and by hs Minecraft was huge. What changed, aside from old games/platforms getting replaced?
- jprete 2y agoI've heard Insta has a bunch of stuff that can replace FB's remaining uses (not just photo sharing, events and such) but I've never gotten into it so don't really know.
- hot_gril 2y agoIG doesn't seem to have the equivalent. Events for instance, https://help.instagram.com/448430800019943 https://help.instagram.com/448430800019943 says "This feature is only available to professional accounts on Instagram." Just checked, I'm still in the largest school-wide FB group from college. It ceased posting in 2019 despite technically having over 100K members still. Gonna assume FB groups aren't a thing anymore and it's moved to Discord, but I'm still curious.