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Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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It actually works great. I'm not going around saying "hello fellow young people, did you see the top post on reddit?" but it's good enough so that I'm not clueless as to what's being said in our chat rooms and I can comment.

pop quiz: what is rizz? (extra credit for bussy, i'm only a decade out from zoomerdom and i don't know how to break that down)

Its game, savoir fair, ecc

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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sounds like their work chat is mainly populated by younger people and he wants to just understand the context of the memes, chill out

Cap bro, chill your rizz.

ok..?

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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The blue bubble thing isn’t about iMessage as much as it is about android messages sucking so hard it affects iOS users. SMS/RCS don’t support large files, (There’s no practical limit with iMessage) and video / images look like garbage. It intentionally corrupts the shit out of gps coordinates. It can’t even make decent audio or video calls. It’s tied to a phone number, and there’s no way to know if the recipient num…

My impression was that you could send SMS through iMessage but when it's between iphones it doesn't use old school phone tech at all and just goes through the internet like other web based messaging apps. But only between apple devices of course.

Yes. It auto upgrades to a decent protocol when you are sending to an apple device. You can associate any combination of phone numbers and email addresses with it, so you don’t need a phone number to send iMessage messages.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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The only thing I miss from being only a HackerNews/X user is birthdays and events.

As adults realize more and more people are not daily Facebook users, invites has gone back to other platforms like eVite but overall, the lack of seeing the latest TikTok trend is much better mentally and productivity wise than endlessly scrolling through content I don’t care about.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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I don't understand why they don't just make the "reciprocity" argument. The fact that we allow Chinese social networks in the US while they block ours doesn't pass the smell test. To me, this line of argument is easier to rally around as it's more business focused and avoids free speech/national security debates which only serve to muddy the waters

Would you be fine with the same reciprocity regarding car export rules for instance ? On principle the "reciprocity" card can't be used only when it helps and discarded otherwise.

Except the US still wouldn’t have achieved reciprocity by banning tiktok. China can and does already enact whatever protectionist policies they want including against non tech.

Lets take your auto example: China imposes a 40% tariff on US vehicles, which is extremely high. The US only recently hiked their tariffs against Chinese vehicles to 27%. https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Are you suggesting that I am unable to imagine browsing Reddit at age 50? Seems like you’re too unimaginative to consider a younger perspective imo.

1) Yes why would you assume a a GenX would not know how to navigate algorithmic filter bubbles? 2) The low quality content on the fyp is actually representative of the state of affairs for many youth. Media and data literacy is not a strong point of GenZ. The amount of ridiculous conspiracy theories(both left and right) going viral is a parallel universe of the infamous boomer political chain emails.

1) you can know how to navigate filter bubbles but the moment you do, you’ll be shoehorned into things that interest you. Which is how it works. Which is fine, but it’s a bad tool to discover things you aren’t interested in.

2) this is the kid of comment that makes me feel more confident. Like… shut up. No, you won’t better understand the youth by ingesting garbage and calling them media illiterates just talk to people and ask questions.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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Are you suggesting that I am unable to imagine browsing Reddit at age 50? Seems like you’re too unimaginative to consider a younger perspective imo.

More fool you, I'm so imaginative, I imagined the point I'm arguing against. Normally I might apologise and hang my head in shame but age is an interesting thought exercise. So come with me if you will, ignore me if you won't. The point I was trying to make is that you are unable to imagine what browsing Reddit at 50 will mean to you; how important staying contextualised with pop culture will be to you. Your Ego is e…

Nah you’re just so lost in old age branded wisdom you cannot imagine my state of mind. That’s ok too. You just don’t understand that my youth is different than your youth.

Or perhaps this is a deeply irritating conversation and insulting line of conversation despite claims otherwise.

Re: Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

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As a 20-something guy I can’t imagine this strategy working

It’s not exactly hard to watch a few 30 second videos and pick up some new slang via contextual learning. It’s a skill we all learned in elementary school.

I agree, but I don’t think that is what is meant by “watching TikTok religiously”
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