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Smartphones + Social media And then COVID appears to have had a massive impact. On September 26, 2006, Facebook opened to everyone at least 13 years old, was
by newsclues 1y ago
Smartphones + Social media
And then COVID appears to have had a massive impact.
On September 26, 2006, Facebook opened to everyone at least 13 years old, was a key date IMO.
- AJRF 1y agoThanks for that, that seems worth adding.
- resoluteteeth 1y agoI don't think teenagers generally had smartphones until much later Facebook was also quite different back then and it was still something that people mainly used to find people who were in their classes If it was smartphones plus modern social media I would expect the trend to start at least 5 years later On the other hand teens already had dumbphones for texting and Myspace before that
- Jordan-117 1y agoThe key difference was porting desktop social media to mobile and giving it an algorithmic feed that prioritized engagement. Everything else is downstream from that: doomscrolling, disinformation, the "pivot to video" that destroyed so many publishers, TikTok, etc.