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Why on earth are they conflating video games and social media ? I bet I can write a study that proves that the aggregate of gardening, yoga and crack cocaine o
by phtrivier 9mo ago
Why on earth are they conflating video games and social media ?
I bet I can write a study that proves that the aggregate of gardening, yoga and crack cocaine only have limited effect on health.
- Sharlin 9mo agoVideo games have always been, and will always be, something that gets included in any discourse about "kids these days".
- HPsquared 9mo agoGames these days are different to games "back in my day", of course.
- awesome_dude 9mo agoI remember seeing an article that quoted parents complaining about their children/teens spending large amounts of their time wasting it away... reading fictional novels Very much the same tone as people that disparage children/teens spending time on video games. Edit: Found an example https://magazine.1000libraries.com/how-fiction-sparked-outrage-in-the-18th-century/ https://magazine.1000libraries.com/how-fiction-sparked-outra... > Critics of the time worried that people were slipping into a fantasy realm and losing their grip on reality. Novels were blamed for basically just about everything, from increasing promiscuity in young women to encouraging suicide and self-harm in young men. One of these critics, Vicesimus Knox, called for the banning of novels altogether, arguing that people should instead read “true histories.” An article in Gentleman’s Magazine put forward the idea of a “sin tax,” with the hopeful notion of dissuading people from wasting their time with frivolous fiction
- recursive 9mo agoNot always. I think it will stop being a bogeyman. At the latest this will happen when the last generation that didn't grow up with them is old enough to retire.
- Sharlin 9mo agoI’d think it will just shift to "today’s games" that are bad, as opposed to "good old games".
- Aurornis 9mo ago> Why on earth are they conflating video games and social media ? They aren't. Social media use and gaming were separate measures in the study.
- phtrivier 9mo agoI'm curious to see J.Haidt's take on the study - it kinda contradicts all the studies he cites in The Anxious Generation that focus on social media.