1TB is tiny for DataHoarder rather than huge. 100TB is easily possible, some may host 1PB.

Back in the day of Amazon Drive Unlimited there was a a data hoarder that had over 1PB of camgirl content stored and indexed on Amazon Drive, this is largely believed to be one of the reasons Amazon Drive Unlimited was discontinued.

What prevents adults from sharing movies from their GDrive, is the consciousness that Google might revoke this account, the backup account and all of your identity for life. Unfortunately, if you did this to youngsters, they’re too young to have read enough horror stories.

No, young kids use google for nothing other than search, and they are getting off that too. I'm more and more hearing 'search' or 'look up' instead of 'google' as a verb.

My kid's circles of friends consider email to be like snail mail/phone calls- nothing but spam.

I warned them about g-products for years while they were growing up, but I needn't have worried- they see g/fb/insta/snap et al for the garbage it is.

Most of them use telegram or whatsap for communication.

Kids im speaking of are 15/17 (both girls). My youngest(boy) at 12 is more worried about football.

They use plex or whatever for sharing. They schooled me hard.

Do they still use WhatsApp despite it being owned by Facebook?

Yea, I warned them when the purchase went down, there was a migration to telegram and discord but they still use it as far as I know.

I'm just glad it's the lesser of the available evils. I definitely have friends with kids in the same age range (and family members of the same age) who use insta-makeup IRL and have phones out taking pics all the time.

Still email is something considered necessary to sign up for stuff, not something they closely associate with their identity, or something they'd be scared to lose.

I was hearing on the radio the other day the average person will use something like 140+ email addresses in their lifetime. Found the article they were discussing here[1]

Between jobs, schools, throwaways and over many years this seems feasible.

[1] https://studyfinds.org/digital-footprint-social-media/#:~:te....

Not despite, most are unaware it is even owned by them

There's a Meta* logo when it opens

Is there? When I open it there's only the whatsapp logo while it loads, both on android and web

No there's not?

Young people use google for YouTube more than anything else. When they search, it’s on YouTube.

TikTok is starting to replace Google for Gen Z.

There was an interesting Twitter thread not too long ago about Gen Z using TikTok instead of Google Search or YouTube for looking up how to do things. Recipes, fashion, products to buy, etc.

Mind sharing the link? Can't Tiktok it. 10x.

I think that's a little too sweeping a generalization. There exist children who are capable of reading

My kids can definitely read. They just prefer YouTube for search/learning

When I was in high-school and college, I felt the same way. However, you basically can't get any adulting done without an email address, so I had no choice but to come around.

They seem to say "search up", in fact

Also if you revoke a student's campus Gmail, that might prevent them from completing their coursework and getting any correspondence from the school.