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I 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 us
by resoluteteeth 1y ago
I 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.