At the risk of lowering everyone's IQ by ten or more points, could we suggest social media are actually evil technologies? As a thought experiment, can anyone suggest anything unambiguously good about social media? I think we all know what's bad. Does the former justify the latter?
At the risk of lowering everyone's IQ by ten or more points, could we suggest social media are actually evil technologies? As a thought experiment, can anyone suggest anything unambiguously good about social media? I think we all know what's bad. Does the former justify the latter?
I wasn't using a computer when social media took off. I'm fairly certain I'm better off for not getting involved until this year with Medium. (High-brow social media.) Was no trouble giving it up.
Thing is, it's DESIGNED to be ADDICTIVE. If You asked just about anybody if they'd turn the greatest asset (their brain) over to a DRUG PUSHER, I believe most would say, "No WAY, Jose." Yet they do.
Besides destroying their attention span, and if they're multi-tasking actually changing their brain circuitry... Besides elevating the most SHALLOW ideas to the top... THe price they pay is the cost of all the shiny baubles social media is selling. That EVERYone just HAS to have, right.
I forgot to mention that Gen-Alpha are getting more comfortable so-called dealing with people over social-media, rather than actual-dealing with people face-to-face. And these kids severely crippled in some cases over-stressing about maintaining their position in their in-group?
And people wonder why depression and suicides are up? Granted, I'm not a psychologist but I just don't believe those are coincidences, do You?
At the risk of lowering everyone's IQ by ten or more points, could we suggest social media are actually evil technologies? As a thought experiment, can anyone suggest anything unambiguously good about social media? I think we all know what's bad. Does the former justify the latter?
Good question, M. Barrie.
I wasn't using a computer when social media took off. I'm fairly certain I'm better off for not getting involved until this year with Medium. (High-brow social media.) Was no trouble giving it up.
Thing is, it's DESIGNED to be ADDICTIVE. If You asked just about anybody if they'd turn the greatest asset (their brain) over to a DRUG PUSHER, I believe most would say, "No WAY, Jose." Yet they do.
Besides destroying their attention span, and if they're multi-tasking actually changing their brain circuitry... Besides elevating the most SHALLOW ideas to the top... THe price they pay is the cost of all the shiny baubles social media is selling. That EVERYone just HAS to have, right.
I forgot to mention that Gen-Alpha are getting more comfortable so-called dealing with people over social-media, rather than actual-dealing with people face-to-face. And these kids severely crippled in some cases over-stressing about maintaining their position in their in-group?
And people wonder why depression and suicides are up? Granted, I'm not a psychologist but I just don't believe those are coincidences, do You?
I've just been coming out from under the rock in this past year. M. Haidt, himself, answered back in 2019: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-media-democracy/600763/ Only gotten worse since then, AFAIK.