Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
by dmix on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:30PM
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Just like all of the people pushing FUD that Tinder/Grindr and one night stand culture would kill true relationships (or worse implications on wider society). Even though everyone I know who used those earlier in their life and are now in serious relationships with people, often one's they met online.
People are always looking for the 'surprising' reasons why society is really in decay and everyone's living their day-to-day lives completely blind to it - except us few who know better.
There's huge demand for this sort of thing to be true, it's been the basis of every cult ever, plenty of extreme political movements, religions, and a million think pieces through history. Yet life and culture always ends up being far more boring and resilient than predicted.
Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
by filoleg on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:42PM
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>Just like all of the people pushing FUD that Tinder/Grindr and one night stand culture would kill true relationships (or worse implications on wider society). Even though everyone I know who used those earlier in their life and are now in serious relationships with people, often one's they met online.
Oh wow, I haven't even thought of that one until you mentioned it, but it certainly seems to ring true for the people I know as well.
Yes, there are many arguments that can be brought up about differences between newspapers and social media, etc., but I strongly feel like it is essentially the same kind of neo-ludditism that will play out the exact same way. Something new will come up after social media, and then people will jump on that as the next thing that "degrades the society". We can already see a micro-version of that, with people lamenting how "back in the old days, blog posts were long form and meaningful, not like those tweets and instagram posts".
0. https://imgur.com/gallery/WkHHpZ1
1. https://xkcd.com/1227/