A guy walks by, picks up the book and starts flipping through it. I tell him what it's about and he asks, "Do you talk about what's wrong with it?"
"Yeah, I talk about some of the downsides?"
"Some?" he says. "They took a poll of Gen Z about things on the Internet they wish didn't exist."
"Really? What are they saying?"
"I'm not telling. You'll have to do your own research, for your next book."
Like I care what Gen Z thinks.
The sad part is, based on the comment your passerby made, he DOES care what “Gen Z” thinks, to whomever that refers.
It’s like when people talk about studies and then use the omniscient, omnipotent “they”. “They found that…”
They who? Gen Z who? A book is a tough one because the ones diligent enough to read it aren’t easily spotted. Then, you have to hook them, convince them they should read your work, and in today’s age, people take most of their counsel from social media in the first place.
He wouldn’t have said that if whatever he consumes praised web3. Surprised he didn’t cry about NFT’s or something.
Does Gen Z care about the banal things they repeat? Maybe we should poll the other generations about their thoughts on “rizz”, “sigmas” or “mewing”.
Whatever good that’ll do.
lol
I wouldn't know what "rizz", "sigmas", and "mewing" are. But I get your point.
I'm not sure the gentleman I was conversing with, a member of Gen X or the Baby Boomer generation, understood what the book was about. It covers a very small sliver of Web3 and is very specifically oriented toward social media within the space. The general population tends to lump all things crypto into one big bucket, and it's a bucket they only understand from the perspective of a popular media consumer.
And that's their bad habit. Sure, it helps since you can't divert all your energy to everything at once, but still. We learn things in our seasons.
lol, sounds like this particular Gen Z doesn't think at all, just regurgitates prejudices he's been programmed with and doesn't actually have any actual information or thoughts of his own at all.
I respect people of any generation who do a bit of basic research and have arguments to hand to support their position. Just not ones who know dogmatic phrases and nothing more.
Well, this particular individual wasn't Gen Z. It was an older person. Probably my age, and I'm Gen X. An older member of Gen X, which means if he was a year or two older than me, then he's more likely Baby Boomer. But when you're that close to the line, does it matter which side you fall on?
My beef is that it's a shallow thing to point someone to some "research" that some unknown or unspoken group has performed, then when your communication partner inquires for more information, your response is, "Do your own research." And to say it to someone who wrote a book based on their own research is simply moronic. Those people make points. They don't have points to make. They're agitators and trolls. To them, I say, "Buy my book, then we'll talk."
I care about what Gen Z thinks... but I also do think polls have extremely limited value.
Polls do have limited value, but the way this was presented was also hearsay. The man didn't say what the poll questions were, how they were styled, or even who performed the survey, all of which matter.
Of course, I care about what people of any age think, but I don't care about what groups of people think because people don't think as groups. They think as individuals and no demographic can be nailed into one position on anything. He could have said a poll was taken about what Baby Boomer's think about the internet, or Gen X, or Millennials, and I would care just as much.