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I think the biggest takeaway is: just because your parents are clueless about the generation gap doesn't mean that you are not either. Don't bring in your assumptions.
(And following that: tech is now iterating fast enough that a "generation gap" can now be seen among siblings, not just parent-children).
I don't think the Facebook issue has anything to do with their brand. I think the attitude that Facebook is addicting actually has more to do with people becoming bored with the service and noticing how much time they actually spend on it. Edit: >> "... my friends and I used Myspace in middle school, and we too abandoned it (for Facebook) once we reached high school" The conclusion drawn here might be incorrect. I'm…
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Yep. The answer might be in someone who figures out how to optimize video chat for efficiency.
Snapchat? Edit: I mean to suggest that photos might be the optimization.
I'm not sure this has as much to do with her age as her gender (although I'm sure the former does play some kind of a role). My sister uses snapchat, instagram, and facetime all the time in the same ways as you described your sister does, and she's graduated from college. She uses it predominantly to communicate with her other female friends. I also know several girls my age (25/26) who use these services in the same…
Being an 11th grader I can honestly say this is bizarre since I associate so well with both Josh and his sister at the same time. Kids use social media differently than the middle-aged.
Josh being in his 20s, it's funny to see that high schoolers already consider us "middle aged" :)
I don't plan on dying at 40 anyway.
I was baffled by the "Facetime is expensive" comment. I'm in the UK. Are data plans that limited and WiFi that uncommon? How much data does Facetime use? The Facetime/iMessage slant is interesting. Do any of her peers have Android phones? Do platform choices follow class/ethnicity/age/region patterns to the extent where it's not even on her radar?
The US has a horrible wireless data market. It's not like the UK or Europe in general. The companies here have a strong enough legal lobbies to keep their monopolistic control over data. We're behind in terms of the amount of bandwidth we can access and how much it costs. These companies typically make over 50% margin on profits while at the same time complain that they do not have the resources to expand bandwidth, or that the US is too geographically spread out.
Almost all the "unlimited" plans in the US actually has a limit. Typically, after a certain amount of usage, the bitrate gets capped. There are a good bit of wifi, but I suppose that then depends on if you want to find a coffee shop just to chat on FaceTime.
I'm assuming the article was written by an author living in the US.
Interesting commentary. However, a sample size on one doesn't yield a substantive-enough dataset to draw conclusions. As a high schooler, I can tell you that service use varies wildly based on location and demographic. Moreover, Josh's sister didn't really differentiate between her preferences and the preferences of her cohort in general. She may have very idiosyncratic social media use-cases. I know the way in which…
Josh doesn't imply otherwise. He is explicit that this post represents reflections on a conversation he had with his sister; it is indeed anecdotal.
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Josh doesn't imply otherwise. He is explicit that this post represents reflections on a conversation he had with his sister; it is indeed anecdotal.
The value of the article is not in its statistical likelihood, but rather, in recognizing how his assumptions blinded him. And actually listening to people.
The fact that one girl exhibited preferences counter to his assumptions does not mean that those assumption are incorrect.
I'm also a 15 years old teenager living in Argentina, but here things are somewhat different. First, no one has a "real" smartphone, most are cheap Nokia phones with some applications for Facebook: People who have money usually buy BlackBerries, I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace (Being an Android fan) that I bought in Spain: but truth is smartphones are really expensive. Facebook... everything is about Facebook here: Teena…