I found it notable the "Ready Player One" movie, featured the group decision to close "The Oasis" on Tuesdays and Thursdays. -->Because reality is real.
I found that irritating. I mean, what if Tuesday and Thursday are my only days off?
A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
21–30 of 113 posts
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#22I am not surprised. One thing that I have noticed about myself is I ask myself after a session on Instagram, "What did I get from that?" and the answer is usually nothing. Did it help my career? No. Did it make me smarter? No. Did it help me make friends? No.
It didn't improve my life in any way.
The instant I asked and answered that a few times, I started cutting down my usage dramatically.
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#23Uhhhh... what? This particular survey featured interviews with 1,058 parents who belong to the panel and have a teen ages 13 to 17, as well as interviews with 743 teens Link: http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/08/22/teens-and-screen-time-... I get that surveys are really hard, but.... 743 seems like a ridiculously low number. Looks like the surveys are through the "NORC AmeriSpeak panel". Pew links to this about AmeriSp…
Something like this, any sample size 300 or above (assuming it was drawn in a representative way) is generally regarded as legit. Source: I run and analyze surveys for a living
300 is kind of a paltry number. One high school’s population, for a medium sized town.
Look at one high school, then another. Take each high school from opposite ends of the country. Same results? Not sure about that. But hey, magic number says we’re all good. Run the article, right?
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something like this, any sample size 300 or above (assuming it was drawn in a representative way) is generally regarded as legit. Source: I run and analyze surveys for a living
300 is kind of a paltry number. One high school’s population, for a medium sized town. Look at one high school, then another. Take each high school from opposite ends of the country. Same results? Not sure about that. But hey, magic number says we’re all good. Run the article, right?
I'm sure that the results hold up reasonably well if they're taken randomly (whether the survey actually is random is another story, though).
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#25A majority, 54% of teens, said they spend too much time on their phone, and nearly that many – 52% – said they are trying to limit their phone use in various ways. Knowing is one thing and actually getting rid of it is a completely different ball game. There's a gulf between the planner and the doer. The far-sighted "planner" in us knows that social media/Netflix/cigarettes are bad for us. When you conduct a survey,…
Maybe, maybe no longer so. The social media experiment is quite old now - old enough to make quite a few people disillusioned about what it actually does to you in a deeper way, and not to feel the urge anymore.
The bigger problem is that FB actually replaced not only discussion forums but also mailing lists for non-technical people, so very often you have no option other than to join a particular FB group if you want to participate in offline events. But even this might change with time.
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#26It's important for people to remember that humans are still intelligent creatures that are capable of recognizing, eventually, what's good for them and what isn't. How many of you guys remember the 70s and 80s, when TV and video games were supposed to turn us all into zombies? What happened? We eventually learned how to see these things as the tools that they are. Humans get fascinated by the new and shiny. This fasc…
You could probably make a better case for social media being much worse for your own mental health than video games. Everything's about instant gratification, creating and maintaining persona for the outside world to see and then hoping for approval thereof from your peers.
The video game world is disconnected from reality, involves long story lines, planning, strategy, skills that you can learn.
Maybe I'm wrong. If I had to chose, I hope my kid gets really in to video games instead of social media.
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#27I found it notable the "Ready Player One" movie, featured the group decision to close "The Oasis" on Tuesdays and Thursdays. -->Because reality is real.
That was the most annoying part of the movie for me.
The whole movie(and a book) was about using this amazing virtual world as the only escape from the shitty horrible reality. It wasn't just entertainment - people go to school there, people have friends there, for many it's the only source of happiness.
And that's what it was for the protagonist, he understands this better than anyone.
But the moment he becomes a billionaire and gets a hot girlfriend, he goes "reality is awesome guys, you should go out more!" While nothing has changed for most people. Fuck you, Wade!
It's like the dumbest cheapest way to add a "moral" to the movie, completely out of character, he'd never do something like this.
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#28It's important for people to remember that humans are still intelligent creatures that are capable of recognizing, eventually, what's good for them and what isn't. How many of you guys remember the 70s and 80s, when TV and video games were supposed to turn us all into zombies? What happened? We eventually learned how to see these things as the tools that they are. Humans get fascinated by the new and shiny. This fasc…
> I'd be flat out surprised if books didn't have their detractors back in the day.
They most certainly did have. This reminds me about Socrates' take on books:
"for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
Source: http://www.units.miamioh.edu/technologyandhumanities/plato.h...
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#29I am not surprised. One thing that I have noticed about myself is I ask myself after a session on Instagram, "What did I get from that?" and the answer is usually nothing. Did it help my career? No. Did it make me smarter? No. Did it help me make friends? No. It didn't improve my life in any way. The instant I asked and answered that a few times, I started cutting down my usage dramatically.
> "What did I get from that?" and the answer is usually nothing. Did it help my career? No. Did it make me smarter? No. Did it help me make friends? No.
By no means I want to defend current social media fads (never had instagram/snapchat, removed facebook from phone 2 years ago), but that's not how humans work.
You don't go for a beer with a friend to gain something, you go to enjoy it/him/her, have a social interaction and overall great time, and level of friendship usually just stays the same. Nothing learned and no career progress is still a perfectly fine result. Same can be said about going for movies or billions of other activities that don't move you anywhere else in life, they just help you wind down.
The problem is, these social media with all of their unrealistic perspectives of real life don't help us, they frustrate us. Sad thing is, they are somehow mentally addictive and too easy to reach.
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#30It's important for people to remember that humans are still intelligent creatures that are capable of recognizing, eventually, what's good for them and what isn't. How many of you guys remember the 70s and 80s, when TV and video games were supposed to turn us all into zombies? What happened? We eventually learned how to see these things as the tools that they are. Humans get fascinated by the new and shiny. This fasc…
> I'd be flat out surprised if books didn't have their detractors back in the day. They most certainly did have. This reminds me about Socrates' take on books: "for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to…
I, for one, find that quite hard to argue with. I guess that makes me tiresome company.