Not before their brains start to rot by using those in the first place
It’s scary to see how even the older generation gains reduced attention span, reduced ability to learn and need for instant gratification on this short dopamine machine.
I hate to break it to you my not-so-tech-savvy friend, but boomers on tiktok is not going to destroy tiktok like it did Facebook. The algo will basically only show their content to other boomers and young people will largely be unaware of it.
Until you get the inevitable ‘hey nurgs, isnt this your mom?’ from your friends.
“Kill” those platforms just means “I don’t use it”. Petty absurd thing to say considering how huge FB still is.
I know very few people that use Facebook, mostly for groups or market if they are. Compare that to a time where everyone was on Facebook, Facebook is dead.
I mean, is it? It’s pretty much just boomers using it regularly now.
If it’s just the Boomers, it’s dead, why the fuck would companies want to market to people with lots of disposable income and nothing to do all day???
Someday kids will understand when the baby boomers were actually born.
Or, I guess OP is a middle-aged person complaining about his elderly parents being on a phone app.
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Uh oh, you’re becoming the generation affixed to social media platforms.
Oh, you’ll try to hang on, I’m sure you’ve got a BlueSky and ZingZang account, probably dabble in Xruddle to stay “cool,” but you’re whining about dated platforms that most people younger than you are already moving beyond.
Fight. Fight against the dying of the light!
Whining? I’m fucking stoked.
Same with Reddit! My mother-in-law recently said, “I looked it up on Reddit.”
We used to do just that, google was where you went to find things. Reddit was where you went to tell other people what you found.
Now you google things on Reddit to find the post where someone else put in the effort to find something. Googles base results are such SEO garbage that niche things might as well not be indexed or gasp on the second page. Reddit itself has also become unuseable with the redesigns, old.reddit/ooer was more readable than the current UI/UX.
Clean Your Room Challenge incomming
How did they kill Facebook?
It’s harder for them to kill since the algorithm on TikTok is so strong it isolates the demographics.
Why?
Chaos.
I wish people hated the brigading proudboys this much. They would be more deserving.
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The kids (not you guys) will just move on to another platform, mate. Depending on the stage of growth, the company will burn through its funding, the owners will cash out, list then cash out, sell the data and move on to the next grift. Circle of life and all that.
Also see vr, llm, gai, etc. In SEA we have a company carsome that was touted as a ‘unicorn’, and I can’t see their value proposition for the life of me.
Aren’t actual boomers? Or just slang for people older than 40?
I think TikTok is at its peak and will be sad if it goes to shit like Insta and Facebook. Although I am a Gen Xer it currently fills the holes that Twitter and Reddit left empty…I see what is trending, cool stuff, news, cute animals and broaden my horizons with lgbtq and black issues. Of course it’s not the same experience for everyone but I find it pretty fulfilling a lot of times as social media, entertainment etc.
