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Can you explain the why?
gen z isn’t using social the way we did growing up, i believe millennials were the exception during a social bubble period others have said because of the "open web," the current "public feed & clout game" is dying, people are far more important to their own niches that do not require a big following anymore
afaict everything is small private loops, group chat, sharing media, and moving money between each other, lightning falls right inline with this thinking
thats why i should have said lean in on the M’s...messaging, media, money
to me this feels like the new surface area because of its coziness
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gen z isn’t using social
Anecdotally I think this is true. My kids and their friends (all zoomers) are not active on X / Facebook. They occasionally browse those sources but rarely ever post.
I think it has to do with "whats the new thing when you are 18" - for millennials that was social media. It makes a lot of sense to why social media was the first to go "woke", because its user base was all 16-20 yr olds who were all set on changing the world one post at a time.
I see some similarities between Gen X (my gen) and Gen Z. Both of our generations had very politically active older generations we followed. In Gen X's case, I think we felt some degree of suspicion to the Boomers political advocacy. Not that we necessarily disagreed from an ideological standpoint - just that it wasn't our thing and thus retreated from advocacy a bit.
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We also knew Boomers were virtue signaling hypocrites and sell outs. Any boomer can be bought. The most venal generation.
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yes rich media
when money lives inside the social layer, every interaction can result in instant payment