08-30-2018, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2018, 09:39 PM by Eric the Green.)
(08-29-2018, 08:51 AM)TheNomad Wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018...cial-media
In my experience, "social" trends always seem to happen in Europe, to GB, then to New York, then California and then spread out to America to reverberate the same "ripples" again.
A small side note, either I am exceptionally insightful (which is definitely true) or there are just many uninformed people out there (also true), one half of the anagram for NAZI is SOCIAL. National Socialist. That is what forms the anagram NAZI. Two words. National & Social. Now back to regularly-scheduled blah blah
It is shocking the trend coming out of GB is to turn off social media. I have never believed that phrase (social media) accurately describes the things depicted in the article such as platforms or ways of interacting. It is a marketing employment, and turned out to be a really effective one. Forcing a whole generation to believe that to not exist in "Social Media" is to not exist at all. This is definitely a large wave in "national mood" even though no evidence like this is produced as referring to the United States. But to beat the curve, we can look at what's coming to see when it will or IF it will manifest here.
If any consolation, the Kardashians (I use that as a baseline for the modern "connected" generation) they received much public renouncing with the Kanye MAGA backwash and a lot of other things. It was not one thing or another, it seemed like this plastic "family" had been melting for at least the last half decade. If we are here to study a 4th Turning situation, it is important to remember we should not expect anything we have seen before. It won't look the way we might expect. The reality is probably going to be reactionary and very large AGAINST things that have been hugely popular previously.
As for me, I've been sort of hiding in the corner waiting for this "social" mess to pass over, l'ange du mort, for years now. I have never had a personal fakebook account. Never had a personal twitter account either. And when ever using these things, I felt since the beginning it was some sort of Doom we all were swallowing as so much sticky ice cream in the heat because the power went out and why watch ice cream melt.
I truly did not see this until after posting -- Kardashian Ratings Freefall.
One thing I have avoided until now is pay TV (cable and satellite). I have never even seen the Kardashians. I don't think I've missed anything, or much else worthwhile on TV, whether broadcast or pay TV. I watch game shows, news and PBS documentaries. Of course, I don't do well on the recent pop culture categories on Jeopardy. Broadcast digital TV added extra channels, which was somewhat of a compensation for those of us without cable. There's no new shows on these, though; they are cheapies. I like some of the oldie broadcast TV network channels, although they just took the best one away here in SF Bay. And there is an extra PBS channel called World too. But I don't think all these are available on cable.
I don't have a mobile phone, or a twitter account, but I've been hooked into facefuck, and it's a big time waster. But so has this forum been for the last 21 years. I think a departure or boycott of social media might be a good idea. It won't go away, but it is too predominant. It's fun though, because of the ability to connect with people far away, and give voice to your thoughts and creative dreams and visions to more people. You tube was a great thing. So there's that, which those of us who grew up without this, appreciate. In those days, connecting with people long distance meant only an expensive phone call, or publishing something, or writing a letter and awaiting a reply.