The tech equivalent of playing FMK is stressing people out
New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo posed an innocent-enough looking question Tuesday afternoon about which tech brands and products people would drop from their lives.
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But the question really stressed people out, despite being just a hypothetical, fun mind game.
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As many noted, this was like a ruthless, teched-out version of the game "F*ck, Marry, Kill," where you have to decide which of three celebrities you'd F, M, and K. But instead of Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Idris Elba, this was with major tech companies.
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In a few short hours more than 400 people responded and gave us a glimpse into people's dependency on their phones, home deliveries, Netflix, and more. Based on this admittedly not-very-large sample size we found some key takeaways.
Everyone's cool with slashing Facebook first
Poor Facebook was easily most people's first pick to remove. Though some people realized their Instagram life would be ruined, but so be it.
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Netflix is life
Netflix depends largely on Amazon's cloud service, AWS, to run so people quickly figured out if all AWS-enabled platforms were gone they'd be sorry. This gave a big boost to Amazon's ranking.
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Nobody wants to trade in Google search for Bing
There's also commuters who depend on Waze and hardcore YouTube fans who aren't ready to jump ship to Vimeo or other video services.
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People can't remember a functioning world before Amazon Prime
If you can't get free and fast shipping what is life, really?
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Apple is like our second skin, but if forced we could shed it
Even if our iPhones are glued to our hands, they could be replaced with a Samsung Galaxy S8 or Pixel -- if really necessary.
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The overall winner (aka the company that was listed last most often) appears to be Amazon. Getting your groceries straight to your door from the touch of a button is just too good to give up. And the nightmare of losing Netflix and chill is too real.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
