Re:TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z
by fpgaminer on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:18PM
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> Gen Z [...] has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity
Focus on projecting success, wealth, and beauty is a tale as old as time. It is not unique to Gen Z, nor is it heightened in Gen Z.
Funnily enough, those claims are also as old as time.
Re:TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z
by dentemple on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:26PM
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> Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity
This statement can apply to LinkedIn as well.
> Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity - often in unhealthy ways.
As if it wasn't true for basically entire human history.
It is just the way in which the success or image of it is being projected that is changing.
You, Mister, need to study history a little bit before you start to compare generations. Also get a little bit of distance and learn about your biases.
I must be seeing a different sides of Tiktok than you. The Tiktok I see has plenty of vanity (though nothing compared to Instagram), but also an immense amount honestness/earnestness/openness where Gen-Z shares its mistakes/embarrassments/awkwardness.
Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity - often in unhealthy ways. Rich people tend to have more followers, white people tends to have more followers, blondes tends to have more followers, sexually provocative content tends to have more followers.
I do not see TikTok shedding its whole zeitgeist to forward a a jobs product that helps the world.