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So this entire article is based on a single person's anecdotal experience, other than this bit:
This links to another article from the same site, and the only quote I can find related to any of this is this one:
This Instagram head guy says nothing about how "nobody posts on social media anymore", just that teens spend more time in DMs and stories than in the feed. This just in, kids do things differently than previous generations! Mind blown, A fucking plus journalism right there. You'd think you'd be able to properly quote your own god damn article properly lol.
Honestly I don't even give a shit about this content, I'm just so sick of biased opinion articles based on the writer's feelings at the time filling my feed like they've uncovered something revolutionary. Stop giving these lazy clickbait news sites your views and fix the dumb bot that keeps posting this bullshit.
Welcome to modern "journalism".
I'm 30 and as far as I remember everything always was "in the DMs" for all the different social circles I've had. Public posts were always a rare thing for special events or so. MSN, ICQ, Skype, WhatsApp, Discord,...