Yes, because I was never particularly active on social media to the point I was talking to a camera. At risk of oversimplifying things, it really only seems like the article is describing standard...
Yes, because I was never particularly active on social media to the point I was talking to a camera.
At risk of oversimplifying things, it really only seems like the article is describing standard inter-generational behavior patterns, but expressed online. The boomers would've done the same shit if the Internet had been invented in the 20s, except they'd be memeing about how those older folks always feel the need to speak all nasally with a mid-Atlantic accent like they're being recorded to a wax cylinder.
And there's always the participation in a trend, it's fun. I'm not online in those ways, but that's what I understand to be the major motivation, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Millennials have between 26 to 41 years of age. I can't imagine there are lots of similarities between both ends of the spectrum. I am technically a millennial, but don't identify with any of its...
Millennials have between 26 to 41 years of age. I can't imagine there are lots of similarities between both ends of the spectrum. I am technically a millennial, but don't identify with any of its stereotypes. The concept of a generation as monolith-like is, to me, absurd. Heuristics running wild. When taken too seriously, it is not much more than astrology for the unbelievers.
I'm also at the older end of the "official" range and don't identify with any of these stereotypes. Of course, I quit Facebook over a decade ago and haven't touched social media since, so a lot of...
I'm also at the older end of the "official" range and don't identify with any of these stereotypes. Of course, I quit Facebook over a decade ago and haven't touched social media since, so a lot of this stuff simply isn't applicable for me. Funny enough, I guess I relate to the gen-Z criticism of "lol random!!1!" culture as stupid, shallow, and annoying. The disconnect is that I still associate it with young people and now it's the hallmark of the old and out-of-touch, or something.
I've been saying for years that the labels and birth windows we assign to generations don't make much sense anymore (if they ever did). Even for people around my age, there are huge cultural divides between the geeks like me whose families were early adopters of the internet, the normies who migrated online later in their youth/teen years or adulthood, and the digital natives who have never known a world without the web. And all those are separate categories from the younger folks who came of age in the smartphone era.
I have strong formative memories of floppies and magnetic tape. Rotary phones and dial-up modems. Single-player gaming on a monochome 8" CRT. Text adventures, and later, telnetting into MUDs and MUSHes. The advent of multimedia CD-ROMs, the information superhighway, and the promise of the global village. The novelty of firing up Netscape 1.0 to surf Prof. Dr. style pages on AltaVista, and waiting 10 minutes or more for tiny GIFs to load.
These experiences have radically affected how I view the online experience in 2022. I recognize that only a narrow band of the population shares them with me; Gen X is mostly too old to have participated in the same way I did, and many of my fellow millennials missed all this and started their online lives with MySpace, LiveJournal, the "blogosphere" or something that came later. Frankly with the pivotal role the web plays in all of our lives today, I think where a person lands in this spectrum has a large effect on how they perceive a lot of the world now. And that's just too granular for these broad generational categories to provide much value.
The whole concept is weird to me because I work in video production. Unless something is live or you're using the beginning pause for dramatic effect, why would you not just edit it out? Almost...
The whole concept is weird to me because I work in video production. Unless something is live or you're using the beginning pause for dramatic effect, why would you not just edit it out? Almost all of these apps offer some sort of basic trimming function, don't they?
As for the rest of the article, I look at internet culture in a different way. The best thing about it is that it's ever evolving. What was cool 5 years ago is corny now. Remember how cool it was to use "u" and "c" instead of "you" and "see" when AOL Instant Messenger was popular? (I recently had my teenage nephew refer to it as "A-O-L-D Instant Messenger", which I thought was great). It's like a massive, billion strong version of all the in jokes and phrases that you and your long time friends have. But it's evolving at such a rapid pace now that it's almost impossible to keep up with unless you're "extremely online".
As a socially incompetent “Millennial”, all I can say is Hah. The popular social media sites have always been a circus. It’s about time that the performers realize that they are the ones being...
As a socially incompetent “Millennial”, all I can say is Hah.
The popular social media sites have always been a circus. It’s about time that the performers realize that they are the ones being laughed at.
I know this sounds dreadfully negative, but I don’t think it’s something anyone should actually feel bad about. They did it to entertain their friends. Every generation does things like this. It’s not anything to be ashamed of. It’s just part of growing up.
Yes, because I was never particularly active on social media to the point I was talking to a camera.
At risk of oversimplifying things, it really only seems like the article is describing standard inter-generational behavior patterns, but expressed online. The boomers would've done the same shit if the Internet had been invented in the 20s, except they'd be memeing about how those older folks always feel the need to speak all nasally with a mid-Atlantic accent like they're being recorded to a wax cylinder.
And there's always the participation in a trend, it's fun. I'm not online in those ways, but that's what I understand to be the major motivation, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Millennials have between 26 to 41 years of age. I can't imagine there are lots of similarities between both ends of the spectrum. I am technically a millennial, but don't identify with any of its stereotypes. The concept of a generation as monolith-like is, to me, absurd. Heuristics running wild. When taken too seriously, it is not much more than astrology for the unbelievers.
I'm also at the older end of the "official" range and don't identify with any of these stereotypes. Of course, I quit Facebook over a decade ago and haven't touched social media since, so a lot of this stuff simply isn't applicable for me. Funny enough, I guess I relate to the gen-Z criticism of "lol random!!1!" culture as stupid, shallow, and annoying. The disconnect is that I still associate it with young people and now it's the hallmark of the old and out-of-touch, or something.
I've been saying for years that the labels and birth windows we assign to generations don't make much sense anymore (if they ever did). Even for people around my age, there are huge cultural divides between the geeks like me whose families were early adopters of the internet, the normies who migrated online later in their youth/teen years or adulthood, and the digital natives who have never known a world without the web. And all those are separate categories from the younger folks who came of age in the smartphone era.
I have strong formative memories of floppies and magnetic tape. Rotary phones and dial-up modems. Single-player gaming on a monochome 8" CRT. Text adventures, and later, telnetting into MUDs and MUSHes. The advent of multimedia CD-ROMs, the information superhighway, and the promise of the global village. The novelty of firing up Netscape 1.0 to surf Prof. Dr. style pages on AltaVista, and waiting 10 minutes or more for tiny GIFs to load.
These experiences have radically affected how I view the online experience in 2022. I recognize that only a narrow band of the population shares them with me; Gen X is mostly too old to have participated in the same way I did, and many of my fellow millennials missed all this and started their online lives with MySpace, LiveJournal, the "blogosphere" or something that came later. Frankly with the pivotal role the web plays in all of our lives today, I think where a person lands in this spectrum has a large effect on how they perceive a lot of the world now. And that's just too granular for these broad generational categories to provide much value.
The whole concept is weird to me because I work in video production. Unless something is live or you're using the beginning pause for dramatic effect, why would you not just edit it out? Almost all of these apps offer some sort of basic trimming function, don't they?
As for the rest of the article, I look at internet culture in a different way. The best thing about it is that it's ever evolving. What was cool 5 years ago is corny now. Remember how cool it was to use "u" and "c" instead of "you" and "see" when AOL Instant Messenger was popular? (I recently had my teenage nephew refer to it as "A-O-L-D Instant Messenger", which I thought was great). It's like a massive, billion strong version of all the in jokes and phrases that you and your long time friends have. But it's evolving at such a rapid pace now that it's almost impossible to keep up with unless you're "extremely online".
As a socially incompetent “Millennial”, all I can say is Hah.
The popular social media sites have always been a circus. It’s about time that the performers realize that they are the ones being laughed at.
I know this sounds dreadfully negative, but I don’t think it’s something anyone should actually feel bad about. They did it to entertain their friends. Every generation does things like this. It’s not anything to be ashamed of. It’s just part of growing up.