10 Nov 21
@shallow-blue saidSocial media are a very mixed bag, especially for minors. Several studies have been published delineating the negative effects of social media consumption on teenagers.
I dare say more people have been rescued thanks to social media.
I also dare say for every person rescued, several dozens have been driven to extremism, anorexia, depression, and/or suicide.
@moonbus saidIndeed. Social media is a blight on many young people. Instagram in particular is under intense scrutiny for its negative impact on the mental health of younger people.
Social media are a very mixed bag, especially for minors. Several studies have been published delineating the negative effects of social media consumption on teenagers.
10 Nov 21
@divegeester saidTotally agree. It's was hard enough seeing kids prepared to attempt to kill themselves rather than return to school before social media. Now they often have no safe place at all. The wished for Xmas present suddenly brings bullying into your bedroom 24/7. No place to hide and no possible escape precipitates completed suicide. Then add to that the online grooming, online hate...
Indeed. Social media is a blight on many young people. Instagram in particular is under intense scrutiny for its negative impact on the mental health of younger people.
11 Nov 21
@relentless-red saidChildren as young as 8 are going online and being exposed to images they cannot possibly cope with. It's frightening, a whole society stands by and does nothing as it's children become inured to sex and violence and violent sex.
Totally agree. It's was hard enough seeing kids prepared to attempt to kill themselves rather than return to school before social media. Now they often have no safe place at all. The wished for Xmas present suddenly brings bullying into your bedroom 24/7. No place to hide and no possible escape precipitates completed suicide. Then add to that the online grooming, online hate...
11 Nov 21
@moonbus saidI suspect we will be remembered as the generation who put the immediate gratification of adults ahead of the future generations of our species in every area of life. Still I've always been wildly optimistic like that. (Believing that future generations will be able to live on this planet and do the remembering.)
Children as young as 8 are going online and being exposed to images they cannot possibly cope with. It's frightening, a whole society stands by and does nothing as it's children become inured to sex and violence and violent sex.
11 Nov 21
@relentless-red saidI agree, and I think Zuckerberg in particular is a shameless exploiter of everything that weakens the human mind and moral resolve. He panders to the lowest common denominator in people. He exploits children for his own personal gain and blatantly says to his employees, "monetize this". He hosts outright lies and paranoid conspiracy theories, and dismisses any editorial responsibility, even when it leads to getting a deranged man in the Oval Office and a riot at the Capitol bldg. For me, Zuckerberg personifies the "instant gratification" generation. He's so far beyond mere hedonism, I don't even have a word for it. Even a dedicated hedonist would recognize that the simultaneous gratification of every human desire would be a disaster, but Zuckerberg appears to be steaming full speed ahead for exactly that ice berg.
I suspect we will be remembered as the generation who put the immediate gratification of adults ahead of the future generations of our species in every area of life. Still I've always been wildly optimistic like that. (Believing that future generations will be able to live on this planet and do the remembering.)
11 Nov 21
@moonbus saidThe hardest struggles for individual human beings that I have witnessed involve compulsion and addiction. When somebody sees that and just thinks 'opportunity' then you have the measure of that person.
I agree, and I think Zuckerberg in particular is a shameless exploiter of everything that weakens the human mind and moral resolve. He panders to the lowest common denominator in people. He exploits children for his own personal gain and blatantly says to his employees, "monetize this". He hosts outright lies and paranoid conspiracy theories, and dismisses any editorial resp ...[text shortened]... uld be a disaster, but Zuckerberg appears to be steaming full speed ahead for exactly that ice berg.
11 Nov 21
@relentless-red saidYes, it is sad, that, and there is no easy or simple solution. Simply banning it isn't going to work; America tried that in the 1920s, banning alcohol. It made people neither virtuous nor happy nor even sober. They just did it in secret. It takes a lot of clear-headedness to recognise addictive behaviour in its subtler forms, especially when it is masquerading as a 'public service for free.'
The hardest struggles for individual human beings that I have witnessed involve compulsion and addiction. When somebody sees that and just thinks 'opportunity' then you have the measure of that person.
11 Nov 21
@shallow-blue saidA very daring comment
I dare say more people have been rescued thanks to social media.
I also dare say for every person rescued, several dozens have been driven to extremism, anorexia, depression, and/or suicide.
11 Nov 21
@moonbus saidDespite everything else we are in full agreement on this. I wholeheartedly agree with your condemnation of Zuckerberg and his strategy for Facebook. I honestly think the guy has a psychopathic personality. Utterly shameless individual.
I agree, and I think Zuckerberg in particular is a shameless exploiter of everything that weakens the human mind and moral resolve. He panders to the lowest common denominator in people. He exploits children for his own personal gain and blatantly says to his employees, "monetize this". He hosts outright lies and paranoid conspiracy theories, and dismisses any editorial resp ...[text shortened]... uld be a disaster, but Zuckerberg appears to be steaming full speed ahead for exactly that ice berg.
@relentless-red saidI wonder if we are all, to some extent, addicted to the internet and social interaction on it. Those of us who are older probably less so but an addiction nonetheless.
The hardest struggles for individual human beings that I have witnessed involve compulsion and addiction. When somebody sees that and just thinks 'opportunity' then you have the measure of that person.
@divegeester saidI can't live without this site.
I wonder if we are all, to some extent, addicted to the internet and social interaction on it. Those of us who are older probably less so but an addiction nonetheless.
Almost 20 years 🤔
Well that whole prison thing kinda put a gap in that 😳