>>88864097>Is the internet-real-life singularity really so bad?It kind of is, because of this next bit:
>>88864151>There are almost always alternate ways to sign up an account for something other than FacebookThat's the thing - *I* know that, *you* know that, but the future generations don't fucking know that. Everyone two or more generations younger than us (I'm 27, saw the internet go from "The what? Sorry I don't have a computer, I'm not rich" to a household standard) just goes with whatever popular media tells them, no questions asked.
At least when I was a kid (I know, "back in the good old days" talk isn't helping my situation) we had regularly-scheduled informative shorts on TV throughout the day that told us to question everything we see in the media. Now kids' TV is just YAY ADVENTURE HAVE FUN AND DON'T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING BAD OR CONFUSING EVER, and with the more-popular-than-cable streaming services there's no more commercial breaks for any benevolent groups to get a word in edgewise.
Literally all of these people have a Facebook profile. Also an Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, everything, all tied together, all their real-life information that they update by-the-minute. All of them have it link to their Youtube. All of them use it to log into anything because "Meh, it's easier." They're the people you see walking into traffic and each other because literally all of them constantly have their face down in their phones everywhere they go, just walking along robotically on automatic mode.
Don't get me wrong, streaming TV is the shit and phones now are literally pocket computers that can do damn near anything, but they're designed for informed users, and the mass majority of new users are totally uninformed. They grew up with this shit as the standard, and have it handed to them as soon as they can grab it. For informed users, these services and technologies supplement thought.
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