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The net waste & damage from unbridled access to social networks, online content, "social games", porn, etc is going to be the subject of many a sociologist of t

by aresant 15y ago

The net waste & damage from unbridled access to social networks, online content, "social games", porn, etc is going to be the subject of many a sociologist of the future, have to wonder where it's taking us. Paul Graham's "Acceleration of Addictiveness" is a great primer on the subject, and he sums up beautifully that the iPad is the "hip flask" of digital addiction: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

tomjen3 15y ago
Why did you put porn in there? There are plenty of porn users (most males with access to the internet) but very few of them are addicts (in the sense that they can't function correctly without it not in the sense that they keep using it regulary because they enjoy it). Facebook, or even hn, is far more addictive.
- salemh 15y ago
  Do people become nonfunctional via HN / FB over Pornography? Sex addicts ~3-5% of populace, harder to narrow down to nonfunctional stats. "There are plenty of HN / FB users but few are addicts (in the sense that they can't function correctly without it not in the sense that they keep using it regularly because they enjoy it). "Far more addictive" is a strong and weird statement. GOOG search:3-6% social media. http://cybercrimenews.norton.com/articles/social_media_addiction/index.html http://cybercrimenews.norton.com/articles/social_media_addic... Higher % to support your statement: "Is Generation Y Addicted to Social Media?" https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:IWRpW7Mg81gJ:www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/academics/communications/research/vol2no1/01Cabral.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg_8lK-5wStApGrKsfZmtlrt-hHLdQkgYPyg3VVD9XB6KNPnISSOB3c4mHQjnqpvq74Bd-uYjO1LgapPWhTzKxE5C4N_HBL6Ldh1wLNW1kq15Djp9cPFzMuKWWrQgPOf7PIe3s0&sig=AHIEtbTAXOFzxOaVZtLNAPxPqM9-Ih1Hng https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:IWRpW7Mg81gJ:... https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=seb&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=populace+addiction+social+networking&pbx=1&oq=populace+addiction+social+networking&aq=f&aqi=q-w1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4496l25768l0l25873l29l23l0l0l0l4l236l3391l0.15.6l21l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=4d179b11806c7eeb&ix=seb&ion=1&biw=1199&bih=645 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=... http://www.myaddiction.com/education/articles/sex_statistics.html http://www.myaddiction.com/education/articles/sex_statistics...
  - tomjen3 15y ago
    During the sopa protests I was annoyed that I couldn't access my favorite porn site, but nothing more than that. When I restricted myself from hn for a week, I spent way too much time thinking what I was missing and too much time waiting for it to become Friday.

by aresant 15y ago

tomjen3 15y ago

Why did you put porn in there? There are plenty of porn users (most males with access to the internet) but very few of them are addicts (in the sense that they can't function correctly without it not in the sense that they keep using it regulary because they enjoy it). Facebook, or even hn, is far more addictive.

salemh 15y ago
Do people become nonfunctional via HN / FB over Pornography? Sex addicts ~3-5% of populace, harder to narrow down to nonfunctional stats. "There are plenty of HN / FB users but few are addicts (in the sense that they can't function correctly without it not in the sense that they keep using it regularly because they enjoy it). "Far more addictive" is a strong and weird statement. GOOG search:3-6% social media. http://cybercrimenews.norton.com/articles/social_media_addiction/index.html http://cybercrimenews.norton.com/articles/social_media_addic... Higher % to support your statement: "Is Generation Y Addicted to Social Media?" https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:IWRpW7Mg81gJ:www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/academics/communications/research/vol2no1/01Cabral.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg_8lK-5wStApGrKsfZmtlrt-hHLdQkgYPyg3VVD9XB6KNPnISSOB3c4mHQjnqpvq74Bd-uYjO1LgapPWhTzKxE5C4N_HBL6Ldh1wLNW1kq15Djp9cPFzMuKWWrQgPOf7PIe3s0&sig=AHIEtbTAXOFzxOaVZtLNAPxPqM9-Ih1Hng https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:IWRpW7Mg81gJ:... https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=seb&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=populace+addiction+social+networking&pbx=1&oq=populace+addiction+social+networking&aq=f&aqi=q-w1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4496l25768l0l25873l29l23l0l0l0l4l236l3391l0.15.6l21l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=4d179b11806c7eeb&ix=seb&ion=1&biw=1199&bih=645 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=... http://www.myaddiction.com/education/articles/sex_statistics.html http://www.myaddiction.com/education/articles/sex_statistics...
- tomjen3 15y ago
  During the sopa protests I was annoyed that I couldn't access my favorite porn site, but nothing more than that. When I restricted myself from hn for a week, I spent way too much time thinking what I was missing and too much time waiting for it to become Friday.