90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)

Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by wyclif on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:52PM (#25556264)

I thought this was funny, but the serious point behind it is that we're only beginning to understand the negative effects that screen time has on humans.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by TedDoesntTalk on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:37PM (#25556462)

Really? My friend wrote her dissertation in 1989 or 1990 on the affects of television on children. The affects were dire.

We’ve known about this a long time, even before screens were interactive.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by whydoineedthis on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:35PM (#25556712)

Really? (No pun or /s intended). I grew up in the 80's and 90's watching a significant amount of television. Myself and my like friends seem to be ok. Didn't go mad or become dumb. Matter of fact, we seem to excell in the digital age because of how familiar we are with the tech behind the television. I'm not saying there could not be some detrimental effect, but it seems the research stating as such was a bit overblown and was more driven by fear than by observed facts.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by TedDoesntTalk on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:42PM (#25563574)

Yep. I agree. Nevertheless, the research was there.

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