• ninjabard@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      It ushered in an era of drastically falling attention spans and fostered increased device addiction. It was never good.

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          It also allowed protestors to be tracked and spread misinformation in a way we had never seen. It was the problem.

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          Are there a lot of active gen z protestors relative to other generations near you? I’m on the younger end of millennials, and where I live I see way more people older than me at protests than people younger than me or close to my age. Maybe just a quirk of my city I guess.

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            Older millennial, and ditto. It’s mostly older, with a smattering of 30-somethings with their kids

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          Gen Z already had the internet. They could’ve shared shit at any time and hosted it as long as they wanted after the media attention without using TikTok.