Stewart, I can totally relate to that description of the various platforms. It would be interesting to join up the typical age groups of the various platforms to indicate the content and attitude!
I agree with Peter re the "you have to be on this new app" fashion cobblers. I used to make phone calls on my phone. Last week someone new I had been introduced to asked for my mobile number. In order to add it to their WhatsCrap sp they could speak to me in the future. Automatic assumption I am on WhatsCrap?
I now have about 16 apps used for various different things that can do at least voice and usually video plus a phone tool that almost never gets used. Ordering take-aways being about the most consistent and thats only because Just Eat cannot find our tiny village and the local food places don't want to waste money going on-line. Our best Chinese place just posts their menu on the local village facebook page and gets no complaints.
For me the real issue comes down to removing human contact and the ability to relate to others, like a trip to the pub and meeting new people in a realistic manner. Avoiding the loonies. Well at least loonies to me.
I cannot imagine how people who grow up now, using the web, on Insta posting photos of their botox brows and pumped up lips at the teenager stage are going to manage getting into a real relationship and develop a perpetual bond. I am a dinosaur. Mind you it may help slow down the over-population of the world if Durex could leverage this change and do a bit more advertising.
So much for progress.
