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Push, pull doesnt matter at this stage. Netflix and YouTube and HN etc are neither, and look at the attention they capture. People think they can regain contro
by tablxs 5y ago
Push, pull doesnt matter at this stage. Netflix and YouTube and HN etc are neither, and look at the attention they capture.
People think they can regain control. The majority wont.
Their brains have been trained for decades now to chase clicks/upvotes/views/likes and followers as if these rules are Newtons Laws or something. Different parts of the brain now are totally fubar, as in once you have been writing with your right hand for 15 years, the brain cant just, over night, rewire large chunks of the network to use your left hand. Its takes lot of discipline and most people dont have it.
Probably have to write off a generation or two before things change. Look at netflix, now that they are hitting the upper bounds of attention capture using video, they predictably move to games and shorter vid formats like tiktok to keep capturing more attention.
They have fucked up a whole generation with an endless supply of rewards and to keep people glued. And given the billions being raked in every hour they have won.
- InternetUser 5y agoWhat ridiculously pretentious old-person grandstanding. Let me guess--was the late 1990s the last stretch of some golden age where the youngsters of America were, for the most part, sophisticated, nuanced, intellectual critical thinkers? The glorious 1990s PlayStation and Nintendo games, network and cable television programming, popular rap and metal music, and print-magazine content of that time were something that people who were your current age then were seeing as insidious time-wasting garbage that was inarguably "fucking up" the minds of teenagers and 20-somethings. You've simply just fallen behind and gotten old; is the feature phone you carry with you a Nokia or a Motorola?