I realize this makes me sound very old. I am a very curious person and want to continously develop and adapt.
Some trends might not be improvements, but some might be.
It’s quite easy actually. You just need to spend 90% of your day watching TikTok. /s
Seriously though what do you mean by this? Most young people ‘tech trends’ are just capitalism fucking them over, the screen time of gen z and gen A is insane. There is nothing interesting going on there, all the cool stuff is here on lemmy: Linux, open source, AI without the billionaire hype etc.
I’m a member of the younger generation myself and I don’t understand why people so many people don’t see it as a leach on their lives, maybe it’s my neurodivergence that makes me have a different perspective.
I am also skeptical of many trends, especially short form videos. I find it surprising if there is no positive trends also.
I generally assume these days it’s AI-reliant/adjacent and remain in my Luddite cave.
Ask them what their 6-7 favorite features are
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Note: Downvote this as a cautionary tale to the younger generations
don’t. most people probably need less technology in their lives, not more.
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Example?
Sending voice instead of text to friends
Counterpoint: the only people who do that in my sphere are kids calling their helicopter parents on smart watches that already have gps ok them, or old folks who aren’t that comfortable typing or don’t care that others around them may not want to listen to them dictate a message.
ah yes.
a phone call with extra steps.
An asynchronous phone call I don’t have to bother about right away. So with all negativities about voice messages, at least they’re better than a phone call 👍
Kind of like voicemail?
Yep, and it signifies emotions in a way emojis can’t.
Back in my day, writing could signify your emotions.
I mean, they serve a purpose and I’m sure sight impaired people use it well…but I live in a country where in speak the language as a second, learning it lateer in life than is useful and goddamn if I don’t prefer texts I can clarify with a translation app.
Ask chat gpt these types of questions. It’s usually pretty good with that.
This is a social media website. Feel free to log off if you don’t want to talk to other people, but the rest of us do
I was trying to be helpful but I guess my tone was lost in text. I find chat gpt to be very helpful in this area. I wasn’t trying to be a dick.
