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I find it more worrying that anyone would want to support this kind of learning. These young people are not being educated on how to identify misinformation; ra

I find it more worrying that anyone would want to support this kind of learning. These young people are not being educated on how to identify misinformation; rather, they're being indoctrinated with values that encourage virtue signaling or worse, trolling. Living inside a bubble of criticism and misinformation doesn't lead one to immediately question and then reform the system. More often, people choose to adapt to their environment which only perpetuates the existing infrastructure. Instead of pointlessly debating each other on this app, a platform designed to capture attention and manipulate emotions, these people should take time to research and then carefully write an essay. Once they are satisfied with their opinions, they could share their thesis with the public and request contestation. If we simply continue with this twitter/facebook/instagram trend of summarizing our most important debates in 150 words or less in a brief amount of time, we're only going to become less educated and more vulnerable to coercion.

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
> Instead of pointlessly debating each other on this app, a platform designed to capture attention and manipulate emotions Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also. > these people should take time to research and then carefully write an essay. Once they are satisfied with their opinions, they could share their thesis with the public and request contestation. More people than ever before are now university educated, or presently attending university. That’s got to help counteract the misinformation trend.
- 5thbootloader 8y ago
  > Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also. Well, I don't think television or the news paper is a good place to debate either. They do however give people more than 30 seconds to think about their responses.
matte_black 8y ago
Unfortunately, I think that before society really figures this out there’s going to be at least one “lost” generation, that will be seriously hurt or screwed up and by such groupthink.
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TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago

> Instead of pointlessly debating each other on this app, a platform designed to capture attention and manipulate emotions Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also. > these people should take time to research and then carefully write an essay. Once they are satisfied with their opinions, they could share their thesis with the public and request contestation. More people than ever before are now university educated, or presently attending university. That’s got to help counteract the misinformation trend.

5thbootloader 8y ago
> Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also. Well, I don't think television or the news paper is a good place to debate either. They do however give people more than 30 seconds to think about their responses.

matte_black 8y ago

Unfortunately, I think that before society really figures this out there’s going to be at least one “lost” generation, that will be seriously hurt or screwed up and by such groupthink.

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