Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.

Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The same was true of Facebook my not-so-socially-savvy friend. Kids will stop using it once they realise grandma is on there because it is no longer cool.

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  • Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Again, Facebook and TikTok operate differently. One is a social network, the other is a short form video platform. A social network is inherently dependent on its users. Did YouTube die when it became widely adopted??

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    • lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know if YouTube died per se, but it certainly became enshittified.

      Heaps of content creators sold out to advertising interests and degraded their own platform. Not that I blame them really, money always talks

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      • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And new creators take their place, if you’re only seeing shit on YouTube it’s because you’re only subscribed to shit.

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    • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Splitting hairs isn’t going to change anything. TikTok is absolutely 100% a social network. It uses more video and less written word but that’s about it. YouTube hasn’t died (and neither has Facebook for that matter) but it was very different in its earlier incarnations. It has become more social as time has gone on, in an effort to remain relevant. It has largely copied TikTok.

      TikTok in turn will become a boring old platform used by Old People (millennials, Gen Z) and kids will (already are) on to something new.

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      • Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not splitting hairs, it’s a fundamental difference. My mother and my niece are friends on Facebook but they don’t follow each other on TikTok. Hell most people who are close friends IRL don’t even follow each other on TikTok. There’s no brand cache for old people to ruin its just a tool. Like

        Sure kids will move on to something new eventually, but it’s waaaay more likely to be cause all the ‘eligible for commission’ videos make it feel like the Home Shopping Channel not cause old people (continue to) use it.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Facebook was best when people used to call their friends cocksuckers and put up photos of people being drunk on the floor.

    Then it stopped because everyone’s family could see and it stopped being funny.

    Then the ads really killed itm

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• ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Until you get the inevitable ‘hey nurgs, isnt this your mom?’ from your friends.

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• soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You do know kids can find out grandma is on tiktok other ways than just the site itself? Touch grass, remember there’s a world outside

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  • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But would anybody be bothered by it, if there’s no interaction there? Boomers destroyed Facebook for younger audiences, as all of a sudden parents would join in on conversations with your friends in the comments under a photo. You would link an article about a political issue and your reactionary uncle would proceed to call everyone who reads it a damn commy that needs to go to the army to learn some real life.

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  • Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol. I can’t tell if you just don’t know any young people or if it’s that you don’t know the difference between a social network and a short term video app. (Or you’re just mad cause tiktok = bad.)

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