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We don't even need clinical reporting to tell that [radio, movies, magazines, TV, video games, the internet, cell phones] has a bad effect on teens. Just observ
by treis 5y ago
We don't even need clinical reporting to tell that [radio, movies, magazines, TV, video games, the internet, cell phones] has a bad effect on teens. Just observe a teenager
Every generation has complained about the impact of some technology on kids. I don't really see a causitive link between teenager happiness and Instagram. It's an easy target to blame for sure. Especially compared with the stark increase in economic insecurity and academic pressure placed on teens these days.
- Invictus0 5y agoWhat a lazy argument. I suppose nothing then can have a bad effect on teenagers.
- treis 5y agoDid you even read my post? I cited two things that I think have a bad effect on teenagers.
- hef19898 5y agoWell, radio and cinema paved the way for modern mass propaganda. Sure, as a society we figured mass media out. The experiments involved a world war so. Sometimes I think that we will learn to handle social media, sometimes I worry about the damage social media, either directly or indirectly, do until we learned our lessons.
- dylan604 5y ago>Sure, as a society we figured mass media out. Are you saying this as in mass media is "safe" from manipulation? I would 100% disagree with that. Stating that it only took a world war to figure out mass media seems very odd as a qualifier. Along those same terms, social is leading us to world wide civil wars.
- hef19898 5y agoAh no, quite the opposite. It is simply that we figured out mass media, and the ways it is manipulated and used for manipulation. We have not yet reached that with social media.
- dylan604 5y agoHave we though? As an example Fox/CNN/etc all have opinion shows advertised as "news" programming. People listen to these opinions as news. So have we really figured out mass media?
- hef19898 5y agoWould it be OK to settle for "we have mass media figured out better than social media"?
- dylan604 5y agoAgain, I don't think we do. Manipulation of the masses via information is a very easy thing to do. You put someone in a positon of "authority", and people will just fall in line with their views. The vast percentage of people do not want to think about certain things and will just believe what the person in a position of authority says, especially if it is already in the direction of some of their other core beliefs.
- hef19898 5y agoSounds reasonable, I think.
- lm28469 5y ago> We don't even need clinical reporting to tell that [radio, movies, magazines, TV, video games, the internet, cell phones] has a bad effect on teens. Just observe a teenager I hate this absolute relativist stance, "something was supposed to be bad once but is now accepted hence anything that comes to exist must be good". > Every generation has complained about the impact of some technology on kids. Don't you think the tech used by people increases at a way faster pace nowadays ? Do you genuinely think that the invention of books is comparable to giving a 13 years old kid a smartphone with intagram ? Just look at what's trending on instagram, they're catering to the lowest common denominator. It's the fast food, if not crack cocaine, of entertainment, literal "content" to fill up the "containers" we are.
- treis 5y agoAgain, you can substitute any of the things I mentioned for Instagram in your post and find contemporary people making the same complaint. And yes, I'm sure there were pointing at Luther to decry the evils of the printing press. Maybe this time all the naysayers are right and Instagram type sites make us worse off. But I doubt it.