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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by lthornberry on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:49PM (#26838345)
The social norm these days is really different. It's not about your friends suddenly starting a new, exclusive behavior; its about a slow migration of the people in your social world to a tech platform you don't have access to. And kids do get left out because of this--not for nefarious reasons, but because they're just not going to be in the loop for a significant part of the social interactions that are taking place.
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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by ryandrake on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:27PM (#26839254)
Thanks. I suppose maybe I'm just getting elderly and out of touch. Gotta be open to that possibility. I know kids can be cruel but wow. Even if not nefarious, it's callous. In my day you were excluded because you were weird, now it's because you aren't hooked to a particular corporate-mediated communication medium. Sometimes I think we deserve the mild dystopia we have built for ourselves!
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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by jka on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:41PM (#26839380)
This is kind-of a meta comment, but I expect that the platforms would actually benefit from this kind of defeatism in older generations, so I'd encourage you not to concede to it.

Yes, platforms can influence social interaction a lot - but ultimately, regardless of age, we're all still human.

I think most people learn to understand what's fair and unfair in terms of inclusivity, even if it takes longer in some situations. We'll figure out better solutions.

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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by jka on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:55PM (#26838985)
It's almost as if there's a pattern in the way that social networks grow, attract users (perhaps identifying people who are likely to draw other users on-board), and then atrophy after being seen as 'outdated' -- usually around the same time that a new platform happens to be appearing.
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