Teens Who Say No to Social Media
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#2Every action has a re-action. Once a development has reached an extreme it reverses in the opposite direction.
Makes sense.
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#3I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically.
The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal.
Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances.
I'm on snapchat. I follow Justin because its funny, but my primary usecase is showing my Mum random parts of my life and keeping in touch with my cousins. This is because my mother is seven hours drive away and my cousins are in the USA.
But in many ways I say 'no' to social media. My Facebook wall is empty, Twitter has no tweets, Instagram is foodless.
The great failing of social media is that it doesn't help you make friends. Its very much for Mrs Bucket
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#4The one you aren't going see in WSJ: teens who say no to Paywall
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#5I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically. The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal. Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances. I'm…
Who, may I humbly ask, and do please forgive the intrusion, but who is Mrs. Bucket?
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#6I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically. The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal. Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances. I'm…
Who, may I humbly ask, and do please forgive the intrusion, but who is Mrs. Bucket?
It's a reference to an early 90s British sitcom (that I never thought I'd see on HN)
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#7The one you aren't going see in WSJ: teens who say no to Paywall
And the rest of us who say no too.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who, may I humbly ask, and do please forgive the intrusion, but who is Mrs. Bucket?
It's a reference to an early 90s British sitcom (that I never thought I'd see on HN) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances
I'd suspect the reference was at least partly prompted by the recently released prequel (it was broadcast 2 days ago):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hyacinth
Keeping Up Appearances was better than Young Hyacinth IMO. Here's an intro to Mrs Bucket:
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#9I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically. The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal. Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances. I'm…
"Instagram is foodless"
You deviant!
Also it's Bouquet dear! Really...
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#10Social media are tools, and a tool is as good/bad as the use we make of it, we should never forget.