As I get older (46) I'm experiencing the commonly-reported illusion that time is passing quicker. Events in my adult life that happened decades ago still feel recent. No surprise there. What is strange is that the big exception to this is the internet and social media. It just feels like we've always had it. Ten years of Facebook? It feels like half a century.
I have to remind my brain often too about the time span some event has been ago already. Seeing that it is already close to 10 years or even more, it appears strange that it is that much. It sometimes is like "just happened yesterday". (Just for example: It's weird needing to say that the outbreak of the Iraq war already happened 15 years ago.) On the other hand, really recent events sometimes appear like "Hasn't that been longer ago?" because fucked up shit happens nearly every day. In Facebook's case, it really surprises a bit to find them still there because the big hype was many years ago, and after that is over, most platforms take a downward course, which then makes them last no longer than 5 years effectively (not counting the "still up, but a graveyard"-time
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I still miss that old MySpace, my first social net where I got to know so many people from over the world! One day they migrated to Facebook and I refused to follow... I've got an account there later, but never could get used to it. Just don't like it with all its commercials, imposing "friends", poor functioning... Sad.
I think it was popular for a few years, wasn't it? About the functionality I can't say anything... Never had to do with it. But I think, all the other offsprings, trying to copy the early social media life, must have worked similar to it (those that existed back then)...
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On the other hand, really recent events sometimes appear like "Hasn't that been longer ago?" because fucked up shit happens nearly every day.
In Facebook's case, it really surprises a bit to find them still there because the big hype was many years ago, and after that is over, most platforms take a downward course, which then makes them last no longer than 5 years effectively (not counting the "still up, but a graveyard"-time ( ... )
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Sad.
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About the functionality I can't say anything... Never had to do with it. But I think, all the other offsprings, trying to copy the early social media life, must have worked similar to it (those that existed back then)...
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