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ref: "the new tobacco" this last year i'm seeing very concerning behavior in students in the 14-20 range. complete addiction to their phones. very deep interes

ref: "the new tobacco" this last year i'm seeing very concerning behavior in students in the 14-20 range. complete addiction to their phones. very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed. similar to how when i started noticing anime girlfriends/waifus in 2016. about 40% are deep in discord communities where i literally cannot figure out a single sentence of what they're talking about. if society doesn't do something, and soon, say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations.

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ikmckenz 11mo ago
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with increased cognitive ability, not a decrease.
- profsummergig 11mo ago
  anime waifus?
  - AlexandrB 11mo ago
    > very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed That's just a symptom of getting old. Young people always find stuff that baffles adults. When I was a teenager, Anime itself was like this - just being "into" anime was considered some kind of bizarre, obscure affectation by adults. I think smartphones present real challenges (and I don't get how/why they're allowed in schools), but a lot of what you're describing is normal.
krelas 11mo ago
> about 40% are deep in discord communities where i literally cannot figure out a single sentence of what they're talking about. I feel like the same could be said of an at the time adult looking at my IRC or MSN Messenger logs from when I was a teen.
malfist 11mo ago
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
- markdown 11mo ago
  - Sir Humphrey Applebee, 1773.
pixelmelt 11mo ago
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed as one of said students, I would just call these hobbies!
Jordan-117 11mo ago
Got some example words or phrases? When I hear stuff like this I'm curious how much is just your standard "out of touch adult" stuff and how much is genuinely bizarre niche rabbitholes.
meindnoch 11mo ago
Is this an "old man yells at cloud" impersonation?
rjdj377dhabsn 10mo ago
If by "society" you mean the state, I disagree. The world is changing quickly, and many people may run into problems, but I'd rather let cultural solutions to these problems naturally arise. Relying on a government to impose top-down solutions on these complicated and poorly understood problems is a recipe for a disaster of unintended consequences.

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ikmckenz 11mo ago

> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with increased cognitive ability, not a decrease.

profsummergig 11mo ago
anime waifus?
- AlexandrB 11mo ago
  > very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed That's just a symptom of getting old. Young people always find stuff that baffles adults. When I was a teenager, Anime itself was like this - just being "into" anime was considered some kind of bizarre, obscure affectation by adults. I think smartphones present real challenges (and I don't get how/why they're allowed in schools), but a lot of what you're describing is normal.

krelas 11mo ago

> about 40% are deep in discord communities where i literally cannot figure out a single sentence of what they're talking about. I feel like the same could be said of an at the time adult looking at my IRC or MSN Messenger logs from when I was a teen.

malfist 11mo ago

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

markdown 11mo ago
- Sir Humphrey Applebee, 1773.

pixelmelt 11mo ago

> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed as one of said students, I would just call these hobbies!

Jordan-117 11mo ago

Got some example words or phrases? When I hear stuff like this I'm curious how much is just your standard "out of touch adult" stuff and how much is genuinely bizarre niche rabbitholes.

meindnoch 11mo ago

Is this an "old man yells at cloud" impersonation?

rjdj377dhabsn 10mo ago

If by "society" you mean the state, I disagree. The world is changing quickly, and many people may run into problems, but I'd rather let cultural solutions to these problems naturally arise. Relying on a government to impose top-down solutions on these complicated and poorly understood problems is a recipe for a disaster of unintended consequences.