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Twitter also changed their timeline from chronological to algorithmic, prompting a similarly frosty response, too similar a shot a whole novel version of pods has emerged inwards the shape of 'selfie decks'. Just similar Instagram pods, users grouping into decks too like/share each other's content to boost stats. There's a strict code of send inwards each deck, users choose a quota of tweeting too liking that they choose to run into for equally long equally they're business office of the deck.
The cardinal departure is this that most of the people using selfie decks don't choose whatever legitimate motivation to larn their names out there. Instead, equally the advert suggests, they're only giving themselves the best direct a opportunity of broadcasting that snap they took on a boat inwards Majorca to a wider audience. If this sounds eerily familiar to anyone over the historic current of 23, allow me hitting you lot amongst a phrase that volition chill you lot to your real soul: 'PC four PC'.
For the unfamiliar, PC four PC was a tendency on MySpace which involved trading moving-picture demo comments. Basically individual would post that strange petty acronym on the MySpace Bulletin Board (remember that?), prompting other people to comment on their photos inwards companionship to larn a comment back. In too thus doing, they completely invalidated the entire indicate of commenting on a photograph inwards the rootage place. I choose this upward because it's well-nigh just what people inwards selfie decks are doing, albeit amongst the vaguely to a greater extent than understandable aim of roping inwards to a greater extent than followers. Social media may choose changed, but narcissism has not.
The other cardinal departure is that PC four PC was a unmarried purpose token, selfie decks are ongoing. Members choose to continuously similar too retweet the content of their peers, regardless of whether or non they choose fifty-fifty the slightest fight of involvement inwards it. That mightiness brand a for certain total of feel if all the members were posting anything other than pictures of themselves, but they aren't. Somehow I don't regard this lasting also much longer.