Pundit: Social media has led to unprecedented numbers of people egotistically blogging and posting photos of their lives! What will future generations think of us, assuming this doesn’t cause civilization to collapse totally?!
Historians: Assuming future historians and archeologists are anything like the ones today, they’ll be thrilled at having so much information on the lives of ordinary people in the early twenty-first century! You never know who’s going to turn out to be important further down the road – some biographer may be terribly grateful to have the juvenilia of a famous writer! Also, if novels, the penny post, bicycles, the telegraph, etc. didn’t destroy civilization as predicted, the world can survive Instagram, you snob!
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Pundit: Social media has led to unprecedented numbers of people egotistically blogging and posting photos of their lives! What will future generations think of us, assuming this doesn’t cause civilization to collapse totally?!
Historians: Assuming future historians and archeologists are anything like the ones today, they’ll be thrilled at having so much information on the lives of ordinary people in the early twenty-first century! You never know who’s going to turn out to be important further down the road – some biographer may be terribly grateful to have the juvenilia of a famous writer! Also, if novels, the penny post, bicycles, the telegraph, etc. didn’t destroy civilization as predicted, the world can survive Instagram, you snob!