(08-30-2018, 09:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(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.
I have never seen an episode of kardashians. I don't seek them out in any way, that is why it shows how pervasive it is that I associate it with metadoom. I would love to get you hooked up with pirating, it's a fun way to get the stuff you want and only that and a way to experiment based on the suggestions of others. I have not had any form of cable TV since I think possibly early 00s. But I have always been on top of the best TV shows and movies and pop culture. I so so miss the idea of "old TV" when sitting on the couch clicking channels until seeing something you might like and/or moving on. That hasn't existed in a LONG time. TV turned into the long slow buttons and complicated menus........ I'm talking old school remote UP ARROW DOWN ARROW. I miss watching CNN and the Weather Channel just letting TV play in the background.
The weather channel was nurturing to me! The maps would repeat over and over with simple local reports, shorts updates on global weather, and maps hypnotize me
so Weather Channel was xanax for a troubled teen. Go figure. The amount of bombardment currently sent at (mostly) young ppl (or those who choose to become heavily entrench in "socialz") it shocks me. I couldn't do it I don't think. Be connected so completely, and everything just in my face 24/7.What does anyone feel about this? Could you - now at your ages - imagine having this tech in JH and HS and having to exist in a world of everything is recorded and snipes can come from any direction at any moment, you can't "hide" from contact unless you turn the phone off which youngers really have no experience and even fear doing. COULD YOU DO IT? I'm not sure I could have.
Anyway. my first experiences with news was the Gulf War when CNN rose to utter news ascension and was the pinnacle of anything happening anywhere on planet earth (or at least that's what it felt like!). omg.... the news would on WITHOUT END hour after hour after day after day and was always moving around the globe or nation to something different. Talking heads and shouting matches by witty hosts was not a thing. There was a wonderful moment of reverence for information, respect for our place on the globe, emerging issues being easily accessible. God bless Ted Turner at least for that. AND TCM! Whatever his politics, THAT is a philanthropist unmatched in the Arts & Entertainment. Or maybe just a fond delusion of a Nomad.
Yes, totally when you say the Internet gave us a totally economic way to access others at distances. And email revolutionized to a level not yet even known today.