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There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps. Wat
by hisfraudulency 8mo ago
There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps.
Wat mean?
- fullshark 8mo agoIt means it's addictive
- al_borland 8mo agoWhen I have true contempt for something, I find in quite easy to quit. There are things I am likely addicted to that I don’t like. I wish I didn’t do them and could stop, but I don’t have contempt for them. I have contempt for social media and even tell my own mother I won’t join when she tells me it would make her so happy if I was on Facebook.
- Gormo 8mo agoAlternatively, it may mean that people are largely hypocritical, and evaluate themselves and other people by different standards.
- expedition32 8mo agoI have observed people who objectively were destroying their lives and yet they themselves were happily in denial. The clichéd and sadly true "I am in control I can stop everything is fine". Humans are strange.
- estimator7292 8mo agoAsk yourself the same question but replace "social media" with "tobacco"
- ThrowawayTestr 8mo agoHave you ever tried quitting smoking?
- dtj1123 8mo agoEasy. I've done it five times in the last three years alone.
- platevoltage 8mo agoI don't think this is what quitting means, or was that part of the joke?
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- ulrashida 8mo agoThat was the joke: it's not easy to quit smoking.
- Gormo 8mo agoThat seems like a bizarre comparison. Is TikTok high in nicotine?
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- ramon156 8mo agoShort Form Content is high dopamine low effort. Yes, it's addictive, close to Nicotine even. The harm is it's wasting an insane amount of your day. You could spend6 hours doing anything more productive
- ch4s3 8mo ago> close to Nicotine even I find that incredibly hard to believe especially since nicotine causes a physical chemical dependency. Sure it is hard for some people to get off of social media, but let's no go overboard here with the social media == big tobacco metaphor.
- olyjohn 7mo agoLet's hear what you think about gambling addiction then. People have destroyed their lives and families due to it. No chemical dependency either.
- Gormo 7mo agoI think it's possible to criticize things for what they are, without having to resort to conflating them with other things. Excessive gambling doesn't have to be equated to physical addiction in order to be regarded as a bad thing -- it can be a bad thing as a result of its own consequences without having to be compared to anything else.
- ch4s3 7mo agoThink about it for a minute, the harm from gambling is intrinsic because you are statistically likely to lose money. It's not so different from a behavioral addiction like gaming, but you can lose your house. Chemical dependency just makes addictive behavior that much worse. Moreover there is literally no evidence that social media is harder to quit than cigarettes. I think you're engaging in moral panic.
- justapassenger 8mo ago1. Because people like it. 2. “Social media” is not the right term to describe those apps anymore. There’s nothing social about them - just an algorithm feeding you stuff. True social media aren’t that different from forums - places where you can interact with other people (in either healthy or unhealthy way).