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my cousins kids will watch youtube videos on their phone/tablet while playing games on another phone/tablet or on another monitor screen while playing fortnite/

my cousins kids will watch youtube videos on their phone/tablet while playing games on another phone/tablet or on another monitor screen while playing fortnite/pc games youtube is dangerous; just like netflix and facebook, they're designed to get people to stay on for as long as possible and obviously children are very susceptible to the design

dageshi 8y ago
Is that any different to using a computer with the tv on for background noise? Or computer + podcast/audio book/radio? Seems like this is just an updated version of what people have been doing ever since the computer was invented.
- mavhc 8y ago
  'Socrates famously warned against writing because it would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories.” He also advised that children can’t distinguish fantasy from reality, so parents should only allow them to hear wholesome allegories and not “improper” tales, lest their development go astray. ' 'The French statesman Malesherbes railed against the fashion for getting news from the printed page, arguing that it socially isolated readers and detracted from the spiritually uplifting group practice of getting news from the pulpit. A hundred years later, as literacy became essential and schools were widely introduced, the curmudgeons turned against education for being unnatural and a risk to mental health. An 1883 article in the weekly medical journal the Sanitarian argued that schools “exhaust the children’s brains and nervous systems with complex and multiple studies, and ruin their bodies by protracted imprisonment.” Meanwhile, excessive study was considered a leading cause of madness by the medical community.' ' In 1936, the music magazine the Gramophone reported that children had “developed the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker” and described how the radio programs were disturbing the balance of their excitable minds. '
- cellularmitosis 8y ago
  I think this is an effect which has emerged out of our overall culture and access to media -- we've trained our brains to be need these constant dopamine hits and our attention spans have suffered. I too have found myself watching a tech talk on youtube, and if the dopamine hits aren't coming fast enough, I'll reflexively open up a web browser and start surfing, or vice-versa. I've become aware, and try to stop it, but it is an urge for sure. I didn't do this a few years ago.
- egypturnash 8y ago
  TV has stuff like Broadcast Standards & Practices, which functions to keep its content within a certain envelope. YouTube does not. YouTube just cares about what gets people to watch and watch and watch. YouTube will happily feed you endless rants about white ethnostates if that's what meets its criteria for "creating engagement".
- S_A_P 8y ago
  I have a few issues with YouTube that I don’t have with other things computer/screen time related. 1) I can’t police what they are watching easily. I’m not saying I want to have them be completely sheltered, but since any knucklehead out there can make content, they usually do... 2) I don’t have the same problem with my son spending 2 hours playing super Mario maker(a favorite of his) or to a lesser extent fortnite or other games What clouds this somewhat is that he spends about half the time on YouTube watching videos about his favorite games, where he learns more about them. There is just an addictive quality that I don’t like about YouTube.

dageshi 8y ago

Is that any different to using a computer with the tv on for background noise? Or computer + podcast/audio book/radio? Seems like this is just an updated version of what people have been doing ever since the computer was invented.

mavhc 8y ago
'Socrates famously warned against writing because it would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories.” He also advised that children can’t distinguish fantasy from reality, so parents should only allow them to hear wholesome allegories and not “improper” tales, lest their development go astray. ' 'The French statesman Malesherbes railed against the fashion for getting news from the printed page, arguing that it socially isolated readers and detracted from the spiritually uplifting group practice of getting news from the pulpit. A hundred years later, as literacy became essential and schools were widely introduced, the curmudgeons turned against education for being unnatural and a risk to mental health. An 1883 article in the weekly medical journal the Sanitarian argued that schools “exhaust the children’s brains and nervous systems with complex and multiple studies, and ruin their bodies by protracted imprisonment.” Meanwhile, excessive study was considered a leading cause of madness by the medical community.' ' In 1936, the music magazine the Gramophone reported that children had “developed the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker” and described how the radio programs were disturbing the balance of their excitable minds. '
cellularmitosis 8y ago
I think this is an effect which has emerged out of our overall culture and access to media -- we've trained our brains to be need these constant dopamine hits and our attention spans have suffered. I too have found myself watching a tech talk on youtube, and if the dopamine hits aren't coming fast enough, I'll reflexively open up a web browser and start surfing, or vice-versa. I've become aware, and try to stop it, but it is an urge for sure. I didn't do this a few years ago.
egypturnash 8y ago
TV has stuff like Broadcast Standards & Practices, which functions to keep its content within a certain envelope. YouTube does not. YouTube just cares about what gets people to watch and watch and watch. YouTube will happily feed you endless rants about white ethnostates if that's what meets its criteria for "creating engagement".
S_A_P 8y ago
I have a few issues with YouTube that I don’t have with other things computer/screen time related. 1) I can’t police what they are watching easily. I’m not saying I want to have them be completely sheltered, but since any knucklehead out there can make content, they usually do... 2) I don’t have the same problem with my son spending 2 hours playing super Mario maker(a favorite of his) or to a lesser extent fortnite or other games What clouds this somewhat is that he spends about half the time on YouTube watching videos about his favorite games, where he learns more about them. There is just an addictive quality that I don’t like about YouTube.