I hate how publicly, nobody acknowledges what led to this: children growing up on mobile devices and social media having all of their attention and desire to grow stolen by handheld drip-fed dopamine devices, and letting contact on social media take the place of real-world contact.
I feel like 30 years ago laws would have been passed on algorithms optimized for engagement to this degree because people actually cared about childhood development factors. Its obviously harmful long-term for societies, and especially their youth, because it pushes everyone into echo chambers, pushing stronger and stronger divides to the point where reasonable discussion is no longer possible, on top of the social and mental deficiencies it drives.
I disagree. Look at all the analysis of the effects of television on people. There's a reason it was called a "boob tube". Boomers are addicted to TV as badly as Zoomers are addicted to their phones. TV was the absolute core of people's lives: culturally, politically, socially, religiously, economically. In the 40's and 50's, people were actually pointing it out how dangerous it was for mass communication to be controlled in such a way, and it couldn't be stopped.
TV does all the same kind of dopamine addiction and mental control, but in a much more centralized way. You can (even now) still see Boomers addicted to the TV.
If the Boomers understood the internet, all internet traffic, social media sites, and emails would be strictly regulated by a government sponsored oligopoly of AT&T, MSNBC Universal, and Facebook.
I don't think you should disagree due to television, but I do agree that television was still likely overall damaging to the collective growth of humanity.
The difference between television and mobile devices is that the dopamine drip is omnipresent. With television, you had significant wasted time/growth, sure, but it was still at the very least on long-form content that required a minor form of irritation in the form of commercials, and it wasn't present while you were doing other constructive things.
Its the instant-gratification, zero-downtime dopamine feed that mobile devices provide that is damaging to growth. People are more impatient than ever, less likely to endure anything educational if it takes more than 2 minutes, etc., etc., etc. Then there's the dopamine burnout that's starting to become apparent in other aspects of peoples' lives.
I hate how publicly, nobody acknowledges what led to this: children growing up on mobile devices and social media having all of their attention and desire to grow stolen by handheld drip-fed dopamine devices, and letting contact on social media take the place of real-world contact.
I feel like 30 years ago laws would have been passed on algorithms optimized for engagement to this degree because people actually cared about childhood development factors. Its obviously harmful long-term for societies, and especially their youth, because it pushes everyone into echo chambers, pushing stronger and stronger divides to the point where reasonable discussion is no longer possible, on top of the social and mental deficiencies it drives.
I disagree. Look at all the analysis of the effects of television on people. There's a reason it was called a "boob tube". Boomers are addicted to TV as badly as Zoomers are addicted to their phones. TV was the absolute core of people's lives: culturally, politically, socially, religiously, economically. In the 40's and 50's, people were actually pointing it out how dangerous it was for mass communication to be controlled in such a way, and it couldn't be stopped.
TV does all the same kind of dopamine addiction and mental control, but in a much more centralized way. You can (even now) still see Boomers addicted to the TV.
If the Boomers understood the internet, all internet traffic, social media sites, and emails would be strictly regulated by a government sponsored oligopoly of AT&T, MSNBC Universal, and Facebook.
Never saw this comment, sorry.
I don't think you should disagree due to television, but I do agree that television was still likely overall damaging to the collective growth of humanity.
The difference between television and mobile devices is that the dopamine drip is omnipresent. With television, you had significant wasted time/growth, sure, but it was still at the very least on long-form content that required a minor form of irritation in the form of commercials, and it wasn't present while you were doing other constructive things.
Its the instant-gratification, zero-downtime dopamine feed that mobile devices provide that is damaging to growth. People are more impatient than ever, less likely to endure anything educational if it takes more than 2 minutes, etc., etc., etc. Then there's the dopamine burnout that's starting to become apparent in other aspects of peoples' lives.
Do you disagree with that premise?