{"id":6040,"date":"2025-04-29T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:51:14","slug":"how-metas-social-platforms-have-damaged-the-values-of-gen-z-and-the-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6040\/how-metas-social-platforms-have-damaged-the-values-of-gen-z-and-the-tourism-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"How Meta&#8217;s Social Platforms Have Damaged the Values of Gen Z and the Tourism Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper will discuss the real life impacts which social media has had and continues to have on the way travelers and prospective travelers interact with travel publics, the travel decisions-making process, and the tourist destination. Specifically, it will focus on how Generation Z\u2019s values of aesthetics and shareability have been reinforced by online travel publics on Meta\u2019s social platforms, particularly Instagram, and made travel-related decision-making more superficial <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/6040\/how-metas-social-platforms-have-damaged-the-values-of-gen-z-and-the-tourism-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper will discuss the real life impacts which social media has had and continues to have on the way travelers and prospective travelers interact with travel publics, the travel decisions-making process, and the tourist destination. Specifically, it will focus on how Generation Z\u2019s values of aesthetics and shareability have been reinforced by online travel publics on Meta\u2019s social platforms, particularly Instagram, and made travel-related decision-making more superficial &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1742,1745,1744,1313,1315,1310],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-genz-2","tag-overtourism","tag-travelpublics","tag-influencers","tag-instagram","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}