Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff reference psychologist Jean Twenge’s use of iGen (Internet generation) for Gen Z in The Coddling of the American Mind. These are kids starting to become tweens in 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.
That said, generation algorithm might be more descriptive because it gets at how the Internet feeds them information. Recommender algorithms tend to work in one of two ways (or a combination of the two): it looks at things you’ve interacted with before and shows you similar things, or it looks at characteristics you have and shows you things other people similar to you have interacted with. That’s how social media feed siloes get built without people even realizing it.
If you want a variety of stuff in your feed, you have to actively cultivate it.
Great writing
As a gen z in his 20s.
This is just sad
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff reference psychologist Jean Twenge’s use of iGen (Internet generation) for Gen Z in The Coddling of the American Mind. These are kids starting to become tweens in 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.
That said, generation algorithm might be more descriptive because it gets at how the Internet feeds them information. Recommender algorithms tend to work in one of two ways (or a combination of the two): it looks at things you’ve interacted with before and shows you similar things, or it looks at characteristics you have and shows you things other people similar to you have interacted with. That’s how social media feed siloes get built without people even realizing it.
If you want a variety of stuff in your feed, you have to actively cultivate it.