An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you
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An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you
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#2why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
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#3Quick link for info on the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetan_Bhagat, an investement banker turned novel and screen writer, who also writes about the Indian society. I had never heard of him, but "He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010."
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#4why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
I think by now we can safely say that the influence of TV on society has indeed been net negative.
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#5why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
I think by now we can safely say that the influence of TV on society has indeed been net negative.
If you have high standards in anything, most people won't get it right. Tools are only as useful as the person wielding them.
The generalization may be true, but concluding that there's no benefit or that we would be better off without would be a non-sequitur.
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#6why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
Because he’s Indian, writing a message specifically targeting Indian youth, in an Indian paper. Please take your “what about” somewhere productive.
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#7If we really want them to see shouldn't they be tweeting this instead or may be in India post it on WhatsApp.
Kidding aside, its going to be really tough to wean people off social media. It will be the defining problem of the world going forward. Things only get worse from here. There will be woke people who get off of the internet but not woke population.
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#8why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with addressing a group of people you belong to and share common values with. This site is based around such as notion. Statements from a group member carry more weight and you can speak to shared ideals. It doesn’t mean your statement can’t apply to others either. Similar things were said about the other media you list but one can’t deny that there are both qualitative and quantitative differences between those media. The danger I think lies in the replacement of human interaction and is proportional to the amount of time consumed.
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#9why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
Because he’s Indian, writing a message specifically targeting Indian youth, in an Indian paper. Please take your “what about” somewhere productive.
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#10why just Indian youth? This is a global phenomenon and I am not sure this is such a bad thing. Very similar things were said about books, movies & TV, humanity adapts and moves on.
Because he’s Indian, writing a message specifically targeting Indian youth, in an Indian paper. Please take your “what about” somewhere productive.
Maybe we can try to be nice to each other.