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Yes, personal responsibility™ is the root cause here. Not corporations that have been making hyper addictive applications and maximising engagement for profit.

Yes, personal responsibility™ is the root cause here. Not corporations that have been making hyper addictive applications and maximising engagement for profit. While I don't blame anyone solely, there's lots of blame to go around - solely blaming the parents doesn't hold up. Kids are ostracized if they don't have a smartphone, don't have TikTok, and don't have YouTube. It's easy to blame the parents, but it's unreasonable to expect them to know how to deal with new technology and how to enforce it with kids. Probably an unpopular take here, but I think within a decade or so social media and technology will have it's "smoking moment" and be regulated harder. Probably some sort of age limits, protections for minors and enforced parental controls (like whitelisted channels, screentime, and such). As today it's pretty much impossible for a parent to see what kids are doing on these applications, and pretty much impossible for them to enforce it if they aren't in the same room.

markrankin 3y ago
I studied Human Geography in my undergrad. Our prof predicted a social media crash would be around 2050 due to declining global population. However, I think this crash is coming quicker than we thought in 2012. The digital twin isn’t in real time, only near real time with some lag.
prohobo 3y ago
When I say parents, I mean precisely the people who should be regulating these things and dealing with the corporations. Parents are the adults in society, so if they're not doing anything about it then no one is.
caeril 3y ago
> Kids are ostracized if they don't have a smartphone So? I was ostracized for being into science, math, and computers in the early 90s. It sucked at the time, but at the end of the day it's better having a solid filter for who are the superficial garbage people, and who are not. Kids are ostracized in different generations for different things. It's in our nature to be shitty to each other. Oh, Johnny doesn't think I'm cool because I don't post vapid content on instagram? That's a win, because now I can regard Johnny as the trash that he is.

markrankin 3y ago

I studied Human Geography in my undergrad. Our prof predicted a social media crash would be around 2050 due to declining global population. However, I think this crash is coming quicker than we thought in 2012. The digital twin isn’t in real time, only near real time with some lag.

prohobo 3y ago

When I say parents, I mean precisely the people who should be regulating these things and dealing with the corporations. Parents are the adults in society, so if they're not doing anything about it then no one is.

caeril 3y ago

> Kids are ostracized if they don't have a smartphone So? I was ostracized for being into science, math, and computers in the early 90s. It sucked at the time, but at the end of the day it's better having a solid filter for who are the superficial garbage people, and who are not. Kids are ostracized in different generations for different things. It's in our nature to be shitty to each other. Oh, Johnny doesn't think I'm cool because I don't post vapid content on instagram? That's a win, because now I can regard Johnny as the trash that he is.