Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old
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Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old
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#2Reading this brought a smile to my face. It took me back to the days of AIM chats, the silly screennames, Casio messagers that we could program to work as remotes for the school TVs to baffle teachers, et al...
I never really considered how technology was evolving during that time of my life, but it definitely was, and I'm getting nostalgic just thinking about it :)
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#3I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic.
As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience.
Now get off my lawn.
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#4It's a testament to the speed at which technology moves that, despite being not very much older than the author (he's 16, I'm 23), I feel separated by a significant age gap. I'm still often shocked that Youtube can afford all the bandwidth required for streaming video; he barely remembers the world where unlimited streaming video wasn't the norm.
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#5I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
> as if their youth entitles them to an audience.
To his credit, it seems to have worked well enough to get him to the front page of HN...
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#6Very interesting, especially for me as an iOS app developer. Thanks for writing this.
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#7That last trend of people using Facebook less and Instagram more bolsters the justification for Instagram's large purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if Zuck can see that trend from their internal data, and the community at HN hasn't noticed it yet because it's happening with the younger generation first.
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#8I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
I think the crankiness will be justified when HN fills up with "I'm a 15-year old who just made this app/website/blog post", but until then it just strikes me as a bit po-faced. No offence, this might be the first time you've had this particular grumble, but someone seems to do it every time a post like this hits the front page.
Incidentally, I agree with you on the blog post. The other stuff this kid's doing - quite impressive really! Wish him the best of luck. I'd LOVE to see a better thought-out follow up post along the same lines. It makes me think back to when I was his age and completely immersed in all the new, cool technology happenings - so many things I instinctively knew were 'right' and about to go massive (and they did), so many things that weren't even products that I assumed were (and later became)... Basically, I want to consult with my teenage self and use that advice to invest time/money!
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#9That last trend of people using Facebook less and Instagram more bolsters the justification for Instagram's large purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if Zuck can see that trend from their internal data, and the community at HN hasn't noticed it yet because it's happening with the younger generation first.
I would be surprised if he WEREN'T using his data to do that! He has age, location, social graph and referrer headers - I'm pretty sure he can use this to predict the next big trend at least a few months before the rest of us.
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#10That last trend of people using Facebook less and Instagram more bolsters the justification for Instagram's large purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if Zuck can see that trend from their internal data, and the community at HN hasn't noticed it yet because it's happening with the younger generation first.
Tumblr is also extremely popular with the younger generation.