The Coming Generation May Not Use Social Media at All

http://tttthis.com/socialmediageneration.php

by dfps • 8 years ago

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gt_2• 8 years ago

Most of my friends loathe social media and only use it in fear that if they don’t, they might be less attractive to potential employers..

forkandwait• 8 years ago

How does that work? Github style contributions, LinkedIn profiles, or some sort of activity trail of planning dinner with friends on FB?

gt_2• 8 years ago

Most of them are in creative careers or advertising.

bigphishy• 8 years ago

LinkedIn is the exception, but I do my best to avoid all others corporate run due to the predatory practices against users.

frfl• 8 years ago

LinkedIn isn't an exception either to predatory practicies.

One of the most shocking things I've witnessed my self is them scraping personal information from a google/YouTube profile and suggesting connections based on that data (I'm assuming they use some techniques to do so of you're signed into Google and LinkedIn in the same browser session)

Nokinside• 8 years ago

Maybe that's something that marketing people, SEO optimzers and PR people should have.

At least for me having Github page, Jypyter notebook, Goodreads profile or something similar and no FB or Twitter profile sends a positive signal.

drdeadringer• 8 years ago

Besides the likes of LinkedIn, what do you mean?

Is "Show us your Facebook Twitter Reddit" still a thing? Yes, I am a bit under a rock.

roymurdock• 8 years ago

The article has no data. Here’s an article with data which says young people are the most frequent users of social media

http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-in-20...

dfps3• 8 years ago

The article isn't about the current situation, but about the possible response to it, right?

phyzome• 8 years ago

Bull. They might not use public social media quite so much, or demand end-to-end encryption. But social media is here to stay.

dfps3• 8 years ago

"is here to stay" because what?

Dirlewanger• 8 years ago

A bunch of wishful thinking. Too many companies have too much to lose from the mobile market.

dfps3• 8 years ago

Isn't there a difference between the mobile market selling products and users investing time, energy and their persons on public online platforms?

The Coming Generation May Not Use Social Media at All

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