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The author of this blog wrote a whole freaking book about exactly this! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How is this like 95% of the comments here, as if Ha

The author of this blog wrote a whole freaking book about exactly this! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How is this like 95% of the comments here, as if Haidt didn't write an incredibly well known book about how all of this is bad!

Apocryphon 2y ago
Because even though he is reposted here every few months not everyone has deigned to actually read any of his stuff
- sanderjd 2y ago
  That's fine, but if you're going to post "now do X" in response to a criticism of Y, it behooves you to understand whether the author might have already opined on X.
lolinder 2y ago
Most people here didn't even follow the link and are just responding to the title. They don't know who wrote the piece, much less what it actually says.
- everyone 2y ago
  They've also been scrolling too much.. Their attention span cant handle it lol. Their propensity for scrolling has degraded their ability to criticize it.
cinntaile 2y ago
I don't get what you are trying to say? Can't people share their experiences?
- lolinder 2y ago
  This comment isn't so bad, but there were a bunch of comments earlier that were implying or stating outright that the author of TFA was targeting TikTok specifically for political reasons, which is clearly nonsense if you have even a passing familiarity with Haidt's body of work. OP followed a similar pattern by starting with "please add YouTube to the list", but they did at least elaborate and didn't imply that TikTok was being targeted unfairly.
- sanderjd 2y ago
  You're totally right. I wouldn't have written what I wrote, if I had seen this comment before seeing the ten thousand other comments on this page that just say "whatabout {other social media app}". Not fair to the author of this comment who was just sharing an experience. Too late to delete it now, so I just have to live with my shame :)
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Apocryphon 2y ago

Because even though he is reposted here every few months not everyone has deigned to actually read any of his stuff

sanderjd 2y ago
That's fine, but if you're going to post "now do X" in response to a criticism of Y, it behooves you to understand whether the author might have already opined on X.

lolinder 2y ago

Most people here didn't even follow the link and are just responding to the title. They don't know who wrote the piece, much less what it actually says.

everyone 2y ago
They've also been scrolling too much.. Their attention span cant handle it lol. Their propensity for scrolling has degraded their ability to criticize it.

cinntaile 2y ago

I don't get what you are trying to say? Can't people share their experiences?

lolinder 2y ago
This comment isn't so bad, but there were a bunch of comments earlier that were implying or stating outright that the author of TFA was targeting TikTok specifically for political reasons, which is clearly nonsense if you have even a passing familiarity with Haidt's body of work. OP followed a similar pattern by starting with "please add YouTube to the list", but they did at least elaborate and didn't imply that TikTok was being targeted unfairly.
sanderjd 2y ago
You're totally right. I wouldn't have written what I wrote, if I had seen this comment before seeing the ten thousand other comments on this page that just say "whatabout {other social media app}". Not fair to the author of this comment who was just sharing an experience. Too late to delete it now, so I just have to live with my shame :)

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