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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by verisimilidude on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:59PM (#21942683)
I can easily imagine influencers Instagram-ing about their awesome "offline" lives. You're assuming the offliners are going to be honest about it.

[Edit] Also, I could see being offline becoming a kind of cultural prestige or aspiration, like something only rich people could do by delegating their online presence to hired guns, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by rikroots on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:26AM (#21944477)
> I could see being offline becoming a kind of cultural prestige or aspiration

This reminds me of the 1970s, when being 'ex-directory' - paying to not have your phone number included in the telephone directory - was seen as cultural prestige.

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