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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Social networks also may face a future where - SHOCK! - people may get tired of using them 24/7 for everything like telling us what they had for dinner. I know it doesn't seem that way now but using Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, on and fucking on, is getting overwhelming. How many sites can you check a day? How many hours can you stare at a screen? Throw in Angry Birds and we're doomed. LOL
I am praying for a backlash. I feel it will happen.
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preach on
I loathe social media and I wish you were right, but honestly ya gotta take into account that we're not the generation to which they're marketing.
I'm involved in an after school workshop for late teens down here and while they are a thoroughly wicked group of individuals holy fuck they are glued to their phones aka social media every moment they can spare. it's baffling to me; the mentality that if something is not captured in text and photos and public comments and retweets and on and on it's useless. personally I don't understand that, I never take pics because
I'm too busy enjoying the real thing . I try not to judge peeps but honestly I think they're missing out on something, a lot actually.
but yeah, reddit may fade but social media is here to stay. peeps 30+ don't rule the internets
for real though, I worry about the long term ramifications of the 'social' generation's blind trade in of privacy for what really boils down to an internet footprint for ego's sake.
I know wicked work and meaningful interactions occur due to social media so I'm not trying to disparage the concept out of hand btw. All I'm saying is that in interacting with these kids it's like they have two sides to their social lives; the real world and then their online spaces.
and each are equally real and meaningful to them.
that worries me, that peeps feel comfortable (and actually seek to) open up every aspect of their lives to public/corporate/government scrutiny. actually what baffles me the most is that privacy barely seems to be a relevant subject on the internet when it comes to social media.
not to get all conspiracy theory-ish (as in, I don't think myspace/fb/twitter/reddit et al. are a plot by the government or some ish), but I can see how -down the road- peeps who never experienced the idea of a life not fully documented on traceable records might be more amenable to invasions of state/surveillance than those of us who can recall a time when privacy was not just available, but valued.
but yeah, reddit will get replaced eventually. something new will take it's place though, I crave the backlash as well but honestly I don't see it anywhere in sight.