Re:TikTok is the bane of my existence working with middle sc...
by tsol on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:07PM
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The problem with this line of thinking is it's true and it's not. People said TV would make our brains rot. It didn't. But some people certainly are addicted. They said social media would make us lemmings. It didn't. But some people certainly do questionable things due to social influence. When you have countless disruptive technologies like tv and social media, they add up.
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Re:TikTok is the bane of my existence working with middle sc...
by Fezzik on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:58PM
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Social media is dramatically different in that most kids[0] now have a social media machine in their pocket and at their beck and call all-day-every-day. In years passed during school hours kids had much less dragging their attention away from school work.
[0] The internet tells me that most American kids have mobile phones by age 7.