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Agreed. Just being in the presence and interacting with other people can often help me on my worse days. Even somethig as simple as interacting with a waitress
by dorchadas 7y ago
Agreed. Just being in the presence and interacting with other people can often help me on my worse days. Even somethig as simple as interacting with a waitress or a cashier at a fast food restaurant. It's something we're losing at a rapid rate, and it sucks.
This lack of face to face communication also hurts us in other ways too. I've an 11 year old cousin who's had a phone since he was 8. He can't understand tone and jokes, and unless it's obviously meant to be funny, he'll often come back with a really rude remark about something too. He just doesn't understand empathy or how to interpret jokes because he spends all his time watching YouTube...
- copperx 7y agoWhat makes YouTube different than TV, which many of our parents watched as kids? TV used to be a babysitter, too, for the previous generation.
- whamlastxmas 7y agoYouTubers often have a very distinct artificial sort of personality that kids try to emulate. This is especially bad if you ever watch Logan Paul type videos and it's basically a bunch of antisocial behavior under the guise of having fun and playing jokes. They're also universally loud and abrasive.
- krageon 7y agoTelevision has similar problems (weird personalities), so while I agree with you on the troubling personality types I don't see how it is materially different.
- dorchadas 7y agoInfinite content that interests you, on demand. TV never had what YouTube offers, and so there was always reason to move away from TV and do something else when it was the main babysitter. Now, that's gone. You cna find infinite hours of whatever interests you on YouTube, and just spiral downhill forever. Coupled with the fact that there's nobody else their age who can have a conversation, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.