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I am a little unsympathetic to the notion that people can’t socialize without social media.
You have phone calls, texts, email, snail mail, face-to-face conversations, sports, community activities, etc. Call your friends, get on bikes, and go have an adventure.
They’re the victims of a lot of money being poured into making sure they don’t use other means of communication. I’m sure they’ll figure it out. I don’t think you have to be unsympathetic to these kids to also tell them to explore other forms of social interaction
These young people were fed into a digital ecosystem that is 100% meant to be harmful to their brains in order to get them to buy shit they don’t need. If we lived in a just world Facebook would have been held criminally accountable when it was disclosed in 2014 that they were conducting experiments on their users by tweaking their news feeds in order to manipulate them.
Thanks to the addictive element of these applications it will require effort to reorient themselves into this new reality, but that’s better than living in front of a screen. In time, they’ll learn that but it is going to be a learned skill.
Hostile infrastructure to cyclists and pedestrians is commonplace outside of a few nations.
Phone plans are far more expensive compared to VOIP/messaging platforms, and snail mail? Where’d you get that idea, dinosaur?
Face to face conversations are very uncommon outside of events which require peers (work, education), so unlike, say, a group message chat, far more coordination is needed for something that may not be possible for all participants.
Community centers are dead, at least in north america, and sports are gatekept.
I could go on, but online third spaces are my generation’s escape from the horrible reality we find ourselves in. Sorry we don’t live in the 90s or earlier anymore, dino.
I am a little unsympathetic to the notion that people can’t socialize without social media.
You have phone calls, texts, email, snail mail, face-to-face conversations, sports, community activities, etc. Call your friends, get on bikes, and go have an adventure.
They’re the victims of a lot of money being poured into making sure they don’t use other means of communication. I’m sure they’ll figure it out. I don’t think you have to be unsympathetic to these kids to also tell them to explore other forms of social interaction
‘Victim’ is the correct word.
These young people were fed into a digital ecosystem that is 100% meant to be harmful to their brains in order to get them to buy shit they don’t need. If we lived in a just world Facebook would have been held criminally accountable when it was disclosed in 2014 that they were conducting experiments on their users by tweaking their news feeds in order to manipulate them.
Thanks to the addictive element of these applications it will require effort to reorient themselves into this new reality, but that’s better than living in front of a screen. In time, they’ll learn that but it is going to be a learned skill.
Nobody has to feel anything, including sympathy. People are free to feel whatever, as long as they act responsibly.
Hostile infrastructure to cyclists and pedestrians is commonplace outside of a few nations.
Phone plans are far more expensive compared to VOIP/messaging platforms, and snail mail? Where’d you get that idea, dinosaur?
Face to face conversations are very uncommon outside of events which require peers (work, education), so unlike, say, a group message chat, far more coordination is needed for something that may not be possible for all participants.
Community centers are dead, at least in north america, and sports are gatekept.
I could go on, but online third spaces are my generation’s escape from the horrible reality we find ourselves in. Sorry we don’t live in the 90s or earlier anymore, dino.