• famousringo
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    1 year ago

    The zoomers were never on Twitter. Too busy with their Snappychats and Tikkytalks.

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    I love that this is basically a “back in my day” but disguised as a problem that zoomers will have. Old man shouts at cloud but instead one day zoomers will yell at water in the sky!

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      Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening. I recently heard someone my age lamenting the fact that kids these days don’t know what the save icon is because they don’t know what floppy disks are. I thought “Who gives a fuck?” Then later on a TV show I saw people using the verb “Tweet” and I thought “Well that’s going the way of the dodo” and here we are.

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    Fair enough. I’m Gen-X and I started complaining about “kids today” when I was about 15. I’ve always been an old man.

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      They’re gonna think Gen X refers to the generation of The Site Formerly Known As Twitter.

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    And nothing of value was lost. In fact, I’d almost prefer that anything you say on the internet not be a permanent fixture upon the internet. Leave it up for a year, or like 10 for politicians or historical figures - but nothing that can fit in a short-post like twitter is worth saving for long.

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      1 year ago

      and deny internet archeologists of the future this goldmine? I don’t think so!

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        Not to mention linguists. I read a book (Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, great read) that cited many studies that used Twitter as their primary source. Basically, the linguists used Tweets as a way to understand how people talk causally on the internet; what is more causal than a Tweet?