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What disturbs me is these people are all angry with a complete lack of an outlook or any attempt to discover the root of the problem and create a solution. The
by _chu1 3y ago
What disturbs me is these people are all angry with a complete lack of an outlook or any attempt to discover the root of the problem and create a solution. The reason young people have been detrimented by social media is because of multiple different fundemental issues.
1. Most kids and teenagers have unmonitored access to the Internet
2. Parents don't see the harm in any of this because it gets them to shut up
3. Maybe it's because of where I'm from (Alabama) but most kids come from bad home lives and mostly cope with it negatively
4. The age of not having to be somewhat technologically adequate to use the Internet since it's now behind flashy colorful locked down bricks has only made technology and society worse, but this is just my personal opinion
5. The algorithms of these platforms are engineered to promote this horrid content due to the boosts in user engagement and therefore ad-revenue, and almost all humanity and sympathy is completely lost in publicly traded companies owned by shareholders that care about nothing
Attaching ID confirmation to use TikTok or Youtube or whatever is a duct-tape fix when parents will just scan their ID so their kids will shut up. ID confirmation to use online social networks is in my honest opinion a major violation of freedom in exchange for a little bit of security (remember what Ben Franklin said?). The Internet is the place where you throw vile insults at someone 8 states away on a multiplayer game, buy those weird books you like and get a second perspective on the dumb exhaust mod you're doing on your car, we don't need to know who you are. For additional context, I'm 15 nearing 16, so maybe I'm just spiteful out of angst.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoLegislators cannot fix parenting, but they can enforce controls and governance on social media platforms to govern to the mean. Duct tape fixes work when more aspirational fixes are unattainable. To the dismay of many, duct tape holds the world together. It can be true that politicians are out of touch and all we're left with are suboptimal solutions to complex problems at scale. > For additional context, I'm 15 nearing 16, so maybe I'm just spiteful out of angst. Early 40s with two kids under 10 here. Welcome to the shit show.
- _chu1 3y agoI came to the conclusion the world is held together with painters tape when I learned there are companies hiring people to mantain OS/2 Warp systems today.
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- hindsightbias 3y agoI'll take the OS/2 painters tape anytime over some new thing that's unstable and will fall out of fashion in a few years. Only to be replaced by something less stable.
- fallingknife 3y agoLaughs in COBOL
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago> Duct tape fixes work when more aspirational fixes are unattainable. Duct tape fixes convince people to get back into the car even though it's still unsafe and then the duct tape gives way at 70 MPH and you crash into a tree. Duct tape is for ducts. Sometimes it's also useful for patching leaky hoses. It's not for attaching the steering to the wheels. If you're going to propose an institutional solution by legislative fiat, do it right or don't do it at all.
- bryanlarsen 3y ago> do it right or don't do it at all. IOW, don't try to fix anything, since doing it perfectly is usually impossible.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoThere is a difference between imperfection and incompetence. In one case you do things having thoroughly considered them and refrain from issuing mandates when their net benefit isn't large and unambiguous. A government that acts cautiously and deliberately and refrains from acting when that isn't possible is not one that never takes any action at all. You can be careful without being infallible. In the other case you pass sloppy rubbish based on rhetoric and populism, don't solve the problem, create new problems, waste resources and divert attention from better solutions, often make the original problem worse and generally just make a hash of things because you're proposing something loud instead of something good. And issuing no central mandate doesn't inherently mean the problem doesn't get solved, it just means it gets pushed to someone else who may have individual preferences or better context and allows different people to make different choices.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoThe only way anything like that could get through Congress is if one party had a filibuster proof majority in both houses. As I said, never.
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- out-of-ideas 3y ago#5 here for sure before Google gave results relative to the region you were in, google search results were amazing. you could search generically and get loads of websites with lots of rich content; it was not always about getting the exact 1 "absolute" answer - it was about finding MORE websites with lots of content... it's evolved though, several times over, for their profit...
- fallingknife 3y agoJournalism and SEO really ruined it. Search for any sort of newsworthy info like a video or statistics, and you used to get the raw video or report. Now you have to wade through clips of said video with some news person talking over it, or articles about the actual data instead of the data itself. Adding "raw video" or "raw data" to the search has minimal effect. Search for anything with commercial relevance and it's SEO spam all the way down.
- _nalply 3y agoI found out with some iterations you get raw videos. First check if negative filtering works. If not, give up straight away or use a different search engine. Then add the term `-news`. This filters out a lot of these videos, but not all. Look at the video headings. Most of them contain the name of the company. Add about three to five of them. Like this for example: `-NBC -"Fox Weather" -Guardian -CBC -CNN`. Then just scroll about three pages till you find a raw video, or add more negative terms and repeat. Be careful not to accidentally exclude raw videos, for example if there is something about people guarding something, don't use `-Guardian` but perhaps `-"Guardian News"`. Or just give up and don't watch Internet videos.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoYou can still find things if you work really hard for it. But the point is that Google could give you better results, it knows how. It is CHOOSING not to because worse results for you means better profits for them.
- d_tr 3y ago> Parents don't see the harm in any of this because it gets them to shut up My mom used to tell me this when I was a little kid, referring to parents who were buying too many video games for their kids. Those games were at least challenging and could cultivate some skills...
- pupppet 3y agoDon't get me started on the Geometry Dash craze. Zero redeeming value.