Couldn't agree more, and bought this shirt to commemorate the phenomena. Sad thing is 'young people today' (just putting on my geezer hat!) have been raised with it, and have no self-awareness on the matter. This includes privacy issues as well. Toukow
You can use a hammer to build a house, or kill somebody....... the tool itself isn't usually the problem.
Some of the uses for these platforms have been benign, or mostly positive. TBN is a good example of like-minded gearheads (and others) productively exchanging info. Some people use social platforms to actually help people in need..... I'm thinking of the tragic crash out West here that killed and maimed a bus-load of junior hockey players... in close to zero-time, a _______-ton of money was raised.
At their worst, I've picked on Selfies specifically as a good example of artificially twisted reality.
As staggering as the direct negative $ costs are for some people, IMO the larger impact has been (quite intentionally) mental health.
Sr. Tech execs who have stepped away, and can speak freely now have been quite clear about hiring top experts to help design the mental "stickiness" and addictive aspects of these platforms. Many of those same execs (lived in the belly of the beast) have done a good job of communicating to their own families how messed up this is and have worked hard at keeping them clear of what they helped create.
IMO, the mental health experts that helped design these platforms behaved more like Arms Dealers than medical professionals...... their industry will be picking up the pieces of this mess for a long time. Like many forms of addiction, some people get totally obsessed, other people pay absolutely no attention.
Pavlov would have loved it..... how many people can resist picking up their phone, when the bell goes off.......
I took special note of a comment in the bbc article on the recent 19 y/o (IIRC) Polish woman who just won the Grand Slam.... she often leaves her phone off for days at a time. That's almost as unheard of today, as a 19 y/o GS winner....
Rgds, D.
Gee...! I wonder how many peeps the name Pavlov rings a bell for...!
You can use a hammer to build a house, or kill somebody....... the tool itself isn't usually the problem.
Some of the uses for these platforms have been benign, or mostly positive. TBN is a good example of like-minded gearheads (and others) productively exchanging info. Some people use social platforms to actually help people in need..... I'm thinking of the tragic crash out West here that killed and maimed a bus-load of junior hockey players... in close to zero-time, a _______-ton of money was raised.
At their worst, I've picked on Selfies specifically as a good example of artificially twisted reality.
As staggering as the direct negative $ costs are for some people, IMO the larger impact has been (quite intentionally) mental health.
Sr. Tech execs who have stepped away, and can speak freely now have been quite clear about hiring top experts to help design the mental "stickiness" and addictive aspects of these platforms. Many of those same execs (lived in the belly of the beast) have done a good job of communicating to their own families how messed up this is and have worked hard at keeping them clear of what they helped create.
IMO, the mental health experts that helped design these platforms behaved more like Arms Dealers than medical professionals...... their industry will be picking up the pieces of this mess for a long time. Like many forms of addiction, some people get totally obsessed, other people pay absolutely no attention.
Pavlov would have loved it..... how many people can resist picking up their phone, when the bell goes off.......
I took special note of a comment in the bbc article on the recent 19 y/o (IIRC) Polish woman who just won the Grand Slam.... she often leaves her phone off for days at a time. That's almost as unheard of today, as a 19 y/o GS winner....
Rgds, D.
People have grown up in such total safety these days that they never learned to assess risk. Kids need to break an arm as a kid if the parents are to avoid going to their childrens funeral later.