ok so I guess tumblr’s userbase might be aging also in what universe are people not texting each other. are we just making up things to feel insecure about now
it’s a valid point: phone usage prior to 2010 was more likely to be person to person, now a significant fraction of that is going to be consuming public content and a smaller fraction producing public content, mental awareness of and exposure to Society at large (on a global scale!) is far more prevalent than it was when you could only text people whose numbers you knew personally.
You’re letting “valid” do a lot of heavy lifting. I think you know this person complaining about influencers does not think the issue is that if it’s easier to message an Australian than at any point in time prior. Whatever point you want to make about “exposure to society at large” and knowing every person you talk to in real life has very little to do with what this complaint is
I don’t follow, phones used to be exclusively for person to person comms, which they can still do, but time spent on phones today is more likely to be spent browsing and posting on social media, a very different activity that has very different effects.
