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There is an XKCD that covers this topic: https://xkcd.com/1601/ https://xkcd.com/1601/

• _blz2 3y ago
  In all earnestness, do you think reading books has the same effect as doom scrolling on tiktok?
  • tstrimple 3y ago
    And I'm sure all those parents bitching about video games and dungeons and dragons were patting themselves on the back over how they weren't as ridiculous as their parents thinking that the problem with the youth was rock and roll music and dancing which includes moving your hips. They finally had it figured out for real this time. Not like the hundreds of generations before panicking over basically nothing.
    • _blz2 3y ago
      The question was, in all earnestness, do you really believe children reading books has the same detrimental effect on a child's development as social media and phones do?
• luzojeda 3y ago
  Just because it is in xkcd doesn't make the argument valid, correct and smart. A book doesn't give you access to the content produced by billions of people instantly, neither music, refined apps where people that earn more than six figures work daily to ensure you spend more and more time on them. Neither does a TV. They are not the same.
  • zer00eyz 3y ago
    You realize that we went from mass illiteracy to over 50 percent in less than 200 years. From town criers to printed papers. Candidly the current landscape is a drop in a long full bucket, printing press, papers, radio, film, television, music, the internet, video games all of these things were going to "destroy the children" and yet somehow we managed to survive. You like all those before you a prognosticating our doom because the world is not the one you grew up in.