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0 pointsKarrot_Kream1y ago0 comments

Right but it's not 20+ years ago. 20+ years ago when my family visited relatives abroad, our relatives would get to the airport and often have to wait for our delayed flight because they had no way of knowing and half the day would be lost. If your flight arrived early then you just waited. That was normal. Now we update each other over a web messenger, arrive at our destination, hop onto the free WiFi, then wait until our relatives greet us.

Technology changes the world around us.

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graemep1y ago

> 20+ years ago when my family visited relatives abroad, our relatives would get to the airport and often have to wait for our delayed flight because they had no way of knowing

Apart from phoning the airline or airport and checking whether the flight was on time. We used to do that all the time 30+ years ago.

20 years ago you could check on websites IIRC.

TheSpiceIsLife1y ago

Back in my day, we had to walk fifty miles in the snow, up hill both ways, and we couldn’t afford shoes, just to phone the airline.

Back when men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

graemep1y ago

and you tell young people of today that and they just won't believe you.

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TheSpiceIsLife1y ago

What has that got to do with social media?

Instant messaging and group chat, I’d argue, are distinct services / protocols / products vis-à-vis social media.

Strained analogies are weird. I like to call them sieved analogies, the other definition of strained.

I strained your analogy and threw out the dross.

BlueTemplar1y ago

If GP has an issue with Zuckerberg => Meta, they might have an issue with WhatsApp too.

The "protocols vs platforms" struggle is more relevant than ever.

(I am surprised that GP doesn't seem to have heard of Mastodon?)

TheSpiceIsLife1y ago

Approximately no one I’ve ever know in Australia uses WhatsApp, so I generally don’t remember to remember it in these conversations.

I think I once used it to advise someone it’s owned my Facebook and sent them my public key.

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0 pointsKarrot_Kream1y ago0 comments

Technology changes the world around us.

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graemep1y ago

> 20+ years ago when my family visited relatives abroad, our relatives would get to the airport and often have to wait for our delayed flight because they had no way of knowing

Apart from phoning the airline or airport and checking whether the flight was on time. We used to do that all the time 30+ years ago.

20 years ago you could check on websites IIRC.

TheSpiceIsLife1y ago

Back in my day, we had to walk fifty miles in the snow, up hill both ways, and we couldn’t afford shoes, just to phone the airline.

Back when men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

graemep1y ago

and you tell young people of today that and they just won't believe you.

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TheSpiceIsLife1y ago

What has that got to do with social media?

Instant messaging and group chat, I’d argue, are distinct services / protocols / products vis-à-vis social media.

Strained analogies are weird. I like to call them sieved analogies, the other definition of strained.

I strained your analogy and threw out the dross.

BlueTemplar1y ago

If GP has an issue with Zuckerberg => Meta, they might have an issue with WhatsApp too.

The "protocols vs platforms" struggle is more relevant than ever.

(I am surprised that GP doesn't seem to have heard of Mastodon?)

TheSpiceIsLife1y ago

Approximately no one I’ve ever know in Australia uses WhatsApp, so I generally don’t remember to remember it in these conversations.

I think I once used it to advise someone it’s owned my Facebook and sent them my public key.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse