{"id":6141,"date":"2016-04-17T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2016-04-17T17:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:54:50","slug":"too-smart-for-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2016\/04\/17\/too-smart-for-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Too smart for facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It interests me how the generations younger than me have changed their social media habits.<\/p>\n

Whilst the professional-age world seems happy with twitter and facebook, younger people have moved their attentions elsewhere (you can google for the evidence of this, here I am relying on a completely unsystematic sampling from biased personal experience).<\/p>\n

Is this because they want to avoid the social media that their parents are on? Because they are driven by a relentless and fickle need novelty and illicit thrills? Maybe in part, but there\u2019s also a logic to the specific social media networks which are in vogue.<\/p>\n

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  1. \nWhatsApp<\/a> offers end-to-end encryption<\/a>. As well as one-to-one messaging you can use group chat for the sort of thing you might use twitter @ messaging or facebook chat, with better privacy.<\/li>\n
  2. YikYak<\/a> offers anonymous location-based chat. Obviously they\u2019ll bust you the moment the law wants your details, but if you are just after hook-ups or advice about embarrassing personal problems this is good enough anonymity to protect your identity from your employer (or partner, or friends).<\/li>\n
  3. Snapchat<\/a> messages disappear after a number of seconds, offering the illusion of impermanence for web-messaging. So different from message boards or most IM, where casual banter from years ago is stored for eternity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So in this way new social media offers some sort of address to three of the big threats of life online: lack of privacy, irrevocable binding of your online actions to your offline identity, and permanent records of even your tiniest online actions.<\/p>\n

    Maybe The Youth aren\u2019t so fickle and short sighted in their use of social media after all.<\/p>\n

    Cross-posted at Medium<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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