ampear · HackerTrans

I don't know - just anecdotally, the majority of non-tech 30-somethings I know certainly say this. There was a period where Google both loudly announced things that wouldn't last (Google Glass) or killed enough niche products in quick succession (Wave!) that the impression stuck.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Headlines are often determined by SEO/engagement folks rather than the actual writers, unfortunately.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Agreed there isn't a single answer to be reached in a vacuum, and obviously this is the mechanism by which majority shareholder intention may be communicated. The statement stands.

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> Is the goal to maximize profits this quarter, or shareholder value (share price) this quarter, or over the course of a decade, or a century, or a millennium? Merely changing the answer over those four options would entail massive changes in management goals and choices.

This is the absolutely crucial core question that gets skipped over so, so often.

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há 4 anosdiscuss

Yeah, used to be a high school teacher until pretty recently. A lot of what OP says about stakes (or perceived stakes) is on point, but social media amplifies all of those stressors; I'm sure it's a recuperative outlet for some, but I don't think that's the average experience.

My teacherly anecdata (from about a decade of teaching) led me to think (in no particular order):

* Anxiety is way more prevalent and central to teen experience than most people realize. Definitely more so than I saw when I was a kid. You could say we use the language of mental health and anxiety to conceptualize experience more these days, and that's true to a degree, but it doesn't fully account for the prevalence or centrality.

* Social media is absolutely an amplifier of the problem. You can really just ask a kid -- they're often very self-aware about it. Many will say something like, "Yeah, I hate it, but you have to be there" or "I hate it but I'm obsessed with it."

* Further to the last point, kids are often a lot smarter about social media than we tend to give them credit for (and often a lot smarter about it than adults). Many are good at compartmentalizing online experience onto different platforms and different public or private or anonymous or real-name accounts -- since they've grown up with it, they've had more impetus to develop adaptive mechanisms. A lot of them create relatively private or close-knit digital spaces to retreat to when the big screaming public square gets overwhelming.

My own kid's a toddler, and I definitely worry about what all of this will look like for him. I want to expose him to technology and teach him to use and understand it, but at this point I'm super leery of exposing him to YouTube/anything with a whiff of social media any time in the foreseeable future.

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há 4 anosdiscuss

Yep, I used to teach creative writing and the kids loved these. They can be cooperatively social, too -- I know one of my former colleagues is using a journaling RPG as a framework for a shared worldbuilding project that his students seem to find really engaging and generative.

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