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Finding that balance in technology use is far more elusive than what the author makes it seem. What about kids and teenagers who very little self control and aw
by rvn1045 8y ago
Finding that balance in technology use is far more elusive than what the author makes it seem. What about kids and teenagers who very little self control and awareness to keep things in balance.
- goldcd 8y agosilent scream "Think of the children" should surely have its own rhetorical-rejection term (although the mental playback of a Simpsons gif, has made me smile).
- saghm 8y agoI think the term is actually just "think of the children!" Wikipedia has an article precisely about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
- munk-a 8y agoAnd that sort of stupid argument goes all the way back - Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock for a few reasons one of which was "corrupting the young".
- goldcd 8y agoI know, but what I should have said is that it needs an accepted fancy-latin-term like "ad hominem" Or at the very least an accepted English equivalent such as "Straw man" Basically I'd like something other than Reverend Lovejoy's wife to appear in a google search.
- rcfox 8y ago"ad liberi"? Not super clear in casual use...
- schoen 8y agoThat would need to be an accusative, "ad liberos".
- dragonwriter 8y agoMore recognizable in casual use might be “ad infantum", which I think is grammatically correct but I don't Latin much.
- goldcd 8y agoI'd always seen it being wider than "just children" More of a "I'm concerned by the effect of this on minds I consider more feeble than my own (due to some massive superiority complex I'm in possession of)" i.e. My own massive intellect is capable of withstanding this 'thing' - but we should ban it to protect the feeble-minded (and I'm too chicken to call others that, so instead I'll do it by proxy). More serious point is that when a democratic process (Brexit, Trump, Netanyahu, Erdoğan, Putin, whatever) doesn't return what you what - we all retreat to our talk of "the others" (or you could flip the whole think around depending on your personal beliefs). It just detest my/others/everybody's unwillingness to examine the lazy/meaningless terms we all bandy around and start pinning our shitty arguments to. I'm not pro or anti "screen-time" - I just hate the term as it's not anything anybody should have an actual opinion on.
- Funes- 8y agoMost adults I know have little self-control, too; and even less when it comes to technology (namely, smartphones and social media). And I don't exclude myself, either: I do have to put out a conscious, sustained effort not to spend the entire day in front of my computer. That, the pervasiveness across generations of addiction to the more mainstream devices and Internet platforms, hints at a problem centered around their very design. That's my take on it, at least.
- munk-a 8y agoIt's worth the effort though - and don't be afraid to remove yourself from technology that demands too much from you for what it gives... that's why I've seen more friends of mine drop facebook recently - it's a nice place to keep in touch with family, sure, but the cost for that communication is extreme.
- kristianc 8y agoPurely anecdotally, it seems like things are the other way around and that young people are very discerning about online news consumption and fact vs fiction; and it's older people who tend to do most of the sharing of viral misinformation and sensationalist journalism. It's also not at all obvious that a world where we have access to any number of sources of information and claim and counterclaim is worse than one where the cultural narrative happened and was controlled through the same four or five very large media outlets. As a simple fact of life too, young people are more malleable and given to respond well to 'actually you're wrong about that' or 'that article is misleading' than olds. Olds are more set in their ways and liable to double down.