Don’t build your home on someone else’s land – TikTok, cookies, and Facebook news
Yesterday morning, I saw someone on breakfast TV that I hadn’t thought about for years. They were introduced as a TikToker. When I last thought of them, they were an Instagram influencer. Before this, they were a YouTuber. The internet moves quickly.
Tech giants rise and fall. Words like ‘tweet’ enter the lexicon, and then, like a bird, they fly away, replaced with a big ugly X. Useful platforms and technologies become useless, and vice versa. One day, we’re watching Vine video, the next day, we need a newfound mastery of QR codes to shop in 180-year-old department stores.
That TikToker on morning TV may soon need a new job descriptor, giving that the US Congress is currently working hard to force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to either sell off the social media platform – unlikely, given it was valued at A$112 billion last year and therefore has a limited number of potential buyers – or face a total ban in America.
“a megalomaniac who crashed a rocket into the Earth this week. ” pretty pathetic Mr Jolly, what color is your Rocket?… I’ll wait.
Great article and all true, but the only other land to build on seems to go under water at high tide.