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Gen Z moving to Flip Phones
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Yeah, this is not actually going to happen. As others have alluded to, it will be a quick fad amongst a few 'influencers' who think they're being so trendy to be on the wave of using old tech. Then they'll realize their Nokia 6085 can't load Instagram or TikTok and abandon it altogether. Quick fad for quick attention spans. I swear this same article came up a year or two back and nothing substantive ever came of it.
Edit: Yup, here we go: https://mashable.com/article/gen-z-flip-phones-trend from 11/10/2021.
Edit: Yup, here we go: https://mashable.com/article/gen-z-flip-phones-trend from 11/10/2021.
I watched the video report that went with the article, and one young person described how social media was controlling her life and how depressed she would get if she lost followers. Anyway, at one point, she mentioned "buying likes" on Instagram (I gather from the context of what she is saying). Does she mean this figuratively or literally? I never use Instagram or other SM, so I was unsure what exactly she meant.
I don't have any personal experience with such services but if you google 'buy followers instagram' lots of results will come up. You basically place an order, get an estimated time for delivery of the accounts to which you are then given access to. You can use the accounts to boost the followers count of your main account, like posts etc.
At least some of them are legit because at some point I studied twitter bot detection and there are academic research groups that made use of fake follower services - for research, to build datasets etc.
At least some of them are legit because at some point I studied twitter bot detection and there are academic research groups that made use of fake follower services - for research, to build datasets etc.
Thanks. Interesting. It's sad that a young person would feel compelled to buy likes.
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In other news…
www.nytimes.com
Pretty funny, although the headline made me cringe. Lots of those old cameras produced quite decent photos, especially in daylight.
Furthermore, many of those from 10-15 years ago were excellent, with superb color rendition, full manual controls, along with automatic modes, and good optical zooms that put even current iPhones to shame.
You simply can't capture distant wildlife well — for example, a bird sitting in a tree — in an iPhone, but can easily do so with old pocket zoom digicams.
“The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera
Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos.”
The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera (Published 2023)
Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos.
Pretty funny, although the headline made me cringe. Lots of those old cameras produced quite decent photos, especially in daylight.
Furthermore, many of those from 10-15 years ago were excellent, with superb color rendition, full manual controls, along with automatic modes, and good optical zooms that put even current iPhones to shame.
You simply can't capture distant wildlife well — for example, a bird sitting in a tree — in an iPhone, but can easily do so with old pocket zoom digicams.
I don't buy the getting off SM reasoning, anyone can delete apps and accounts as to not use them, buying a flip phone to get off SM is like buying a slower car to have fewer speeding tickets.
It's just a fad for vintage stuff the gen Z didn't experience first hand, next up they'll have a floppy disk comeback.
It's just a fad for vintage stuff the gen Z didn't experience first hand, next up they'll have a floppy disk comeback.
It’s not just Gen Z. In 2019 we had one professor that rather than replace his smartphone, went back to his clunky old ancient flip-phone, and entertained everyone us with his list of reasons. Here we are going into 2023 and about half the Millenial professors and about a third of GenX professors are all sporting their old flipjobs.
Enough people are learning about the “attention economy”’s designed effects on brain chemistry, and facing the exorbitant costs of feeding the continual hardware addiction, are trying out not being tethered to it. For the cost of a new phone that promises to stroke your serotonin & dopamine levels even harder than the last one, you can buy a decent mountain bike that takes you a thousand beautiful places with excellent resolution, or take a couple pretty good vacations to interesting places and have an experience worth more than an insta post. Not a big surprise people ultimately find it preferable to not have their hormone levels hijacked by tech company bro’s every 7.6 seconds to feed an image addiction.
Enough people are learning about the “attention economy”’s designed effects on brain chemistry, and facing the exorbitant costs of feeding the continual hardware addiction, are trying out not being tethered to it. For the cost of a new phone that promises to stroke your serotonin & dopamine levels even harder than the last one, you can buy a decent mountain bike that takes you a thousand beautiful places with excellent resolution, or take a couple pretty good vacations to interesting places and have an experience worth more than an insta post. Not a big surprise people ultimately find it preferable to not have their hormone levels hijacked by tech company bro’s every 7.6 seconds to feed an image addiction.
Yes, and the Orville episode “Majority Rule” especially, where society judges everyone and everything with like and dislike votes.
“On a television in Lysella's coffee shop, a news anchor points out that the South Madaka resevoir is contaminated by industrial waste but his guest responds that 74 percent of the population has voted that assessment as false, and therefore cannot be true.”
That’s how crap todays phones are. I would keep using my E8 over any of this Nokia trash.
I saw an article, it must be representative of reality! Certainly not from an opinion news website. Oh wait...
Every generation has these kinds of people of course. I don’t get why you’d put wired headphones in the list though. Wireless isn’t better, it’s just different
What I've seen most recently is that the kids are back to using Earpods instead of Airpods, because "their parents use Airpods and they don't want to look like their parents"
They don't know how good they have it.
I assume that it’s either a really American thing, something you made up or just the fact that Airpods are like the price of a phone while regular Apple earbuds are actually affordable for kids.
This! It’s why I leave my phone upstairs in my office when we have family dinner or company. If I’m needed, my watch will give me texts or calls.
Also don’t understand why people take it to the bathroom. Micro tech breaks are good too.
They are no different then any other generation. They are free to pick their own path, and if they want a flip phone they can. Who cares if its a step back, they're not hurting anyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've seen some of the samsung foldable screen flip phones, and they look amazing. They're not a step back, but something very different and if that catches on, good for them.
Black Mirror has a pretty fantastic episode of one happy-go-lucky office workers slow, steady descent one dislike at a time into a padded cell screaming obscenities across the hall back and forth to the other inmates.
Agreed - it’s easy to get off social media, just don’t install the apps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Of all the things I use my iPhone for - which isn’t really a lot compared to some people - using it as “A phone” is pretty far down the list. So I don’t see a flip phone in my future.