in my memory the continuous creation and abandonment of social platforms was just part of the natural ebb and flow of the information super highway. but i'm in my 30s. and adults a decade younger than me have had twitter for as long as they've been connected to the internet. for many of them, i think speculating about a twitter collapse has them confronting a type of finality for the first time. and i empathize with that.
These are people who have never experienced their favorite Geocities sites disappearing like grains of sand through open fingers
