@eris Millennials were/are like the only people who ever used Tumblr. Business Insider is mostly read by old people who were the ones who blamed millennials for the death of [everything we couldn't afford because they wouldn't pay us].

@eris tumblr kinda always sucked cause of millennials. I did used to use it a long time ago so yeah I was part of the problem. I didn't post about politics though, I had a few themed blogs. My favorite being a spooky themed black and white one

@icedquinn Something like that, yeah. @eris

@eris@yourwalls.today I like how this assumes Millenials ruin social media platforms when it's the company itself promoting the race to the bottom with money-focused algorithms and deliberately butchered user interfaces. ​​

@adiz @eris Millennials decided they'd live their lives online, sharing everything online, subjecting themselves to the veto of mobs, cowering and longing for approval of people they've never met. They punted on personality development, and have lived shallow half-lives ever since. Millennials are the first ones to live "online" where their devices are just access points, to their virtual representations -- accessing the same information on a computer or phone, with no there being there there, and one device swaps for the other. Older generations had machines, media, disks, or physical notebooks, or rollodexes, and transferring information from one to the other was a pain, the information was local, they lived local.

@polarisera
> Older generations had machines, media, disks, or physical notebooks, or rollodexes

Hard millennial here, and grew up with all of these things. Physical notebooks throughout most of school. First foray onto Internet was dialup. Data transfer between machines were 3.5in disks. Computers were big, beige boxes with large CRT displays. The house would have one computer. It was the computer. And only one person could readily use it at a time. It was the e-portal---technology and connectivity was not ubiquitous as it is today.

Also, this post reeks or "we were the last generation to play outside or drink water from a garden hose". 🤭 @eris

@adiz @eris I think you are more Gen-X. But the division really should be the existence of a social display of a disembodied self that you access from any point, phone, computer, device independent, even google docs, etc. Sure there were databases and mainframes, company and school records, but this other self that lived out there on the internet, and could be accessed from many points by many devices is completely new to humanity. And we still don't know how to manage it.

@polarisera
> I think you are more Gen-X

Kid through the 90s, teen through the 00s, adult through the 10s. 🤷

It's mostly the zoomers who are living in, and born into, a 100% internet-connected world with smartphones and tablets and everything and never knowing a world otherwise. @eris