The same thing happened with the Boomers. They thought they were very special and different because television and movies were spending so much time and attention on them.
In reality, tv and movies were machines made by the Greatest and Silent generations to sell products to children.
So boomers grew up to be hyper-consumers who are highly vulnerable to believing whatever the magic box in the living room tells them.
Now Gen X sells products based on the opinion of the crowd and the new fashion is constantly trying to match beliefs with the shifting consensus of a para-social cloud of "friends".
I'm reminded of Vonnegut's bit about the Booboolings, a species who thought it was a good idea to program their children socially...
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Gen X created pretty much all these social networks though.
Zoomers (the young people this author is likely talking about) pretty much grew up while these networks already took off.
Though the generation the social networks target will likely switch to gen alpha soon, as they're quickly approaching their puperty.
The same thing happened with the Boomers. They thought they were very special and different because television and movies were spending so much time and attention on them.
In reality, tv and movies were machines made by the Greatest and Silent generations to sell products to children.
So boomers grew up to be hyper-consumers who are highly vulnerable to believing whatever the magic box in the living room tells them.
Now Gen X sells products based on the opinion of the crowd and the new fashion is constantly trying to match beliefs with the shifting consensus of a para-social cloud of "friends".
I'm reminded of Vonnegut's bit about the Booboolings, a species who thought it was a good idea to program their children socially...
https://realflashbytes.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/the-sisters-...