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Riley to Technology@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

www.newyorker.com

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Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore

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Riley to Technology@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.
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      Also parents taking over something fun.

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        I’m a parent that grew up on the internet. Remember that many of us who grew up on ICQ and Geocities to Napster and the somethingawful forums and beyond are now approaching 40.

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        Today’s parents and grandparents are 1993’s internet kids. Some of us, anyway.

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