3. We’ll Livestream Anything and Everything
We really like to share everything that we’re doing, exactly when we’re doing it. This year, live streaming platforms like Periscope and Facebook Live quickly became a tool not just for sharing parties and celebrity encounters, but also dark situations, like the death of Philando Castile, and most recently the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at an Ankara art gallery. If 2016 was the year of oversharing on every single platform, next year we’ll begin to see ourselves turn our lives into the real life Truman Show. Instagram is the latest to get onboard, with a new feature for users to go “live” to their followers. This kind of sucks because most of the time, if it’s not out of necessity – livestreaming is pretty annoying. But the hype around livestreaming boils down to two things; people love to be the whistleblower and of course, everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame and livestreaming gives that to users hunting for more than likes.
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