Re:Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
by ameister14 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:54PM
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>watch people die everyday
Maybe not every day, but death was a lot closer to people for everything up to the last hundred years or so.
Look at child and maternal death rates.
Even so, you're talking about 1 tragic event every 6 months at most, on average (except for wartime).
Not a slew of garbage about 10000 tragic events happening each day.
Re:Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
by throwaway2037 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:49PM
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"People don't thrive on social medias interactions, they're addicted to them." This is a choice phrase. Well said.
Ok but could they follow 500 influencers, watch people die everyday, get the ever up to date flow of new disease, earthquakes, terrorists attack fed 24/7, compare themselves to the best of the best, see the worst of the worst, &c. ?
For people who lived/grew up before the 90s/2000s it is very obvious that things changed in a massive way extremely quickly, a lot due to internet but eve more due to pocket computers.
I think you're massively underestimating the scale of the issue. People don't thrive on social medias interactions, they're addicted to them, depending on the survey/study you look at it's anywhere from 4 to 9 hours per day on average.