Is there evidence Instagram takes advantage of this? Shameful if so.
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What does it mean to be addicted to porn? Daily viewing? Hourly? Constant?
Typically viewing to the detriment of your emotional/mental/physical health. If you consistently choose porn over real intimacy or if you overly desensitize yourself (porn-induced ED is a real, and quite common thing). The biggest concern is choosing porn over physical intimacy/attempts at physical intimacy. It's super easy for someone who maybe already isn't a social superstar to just find themselves choosing the ea…
You yourself recognize porn is an "easy option". Then no wonder people for whom it is hard to successfully form relationship that would lead to sex use it. It's like saying "cars are bad because it's too easy to just drive 100km instead of walking the same distance", ignoring the fact that for many people walking 100 km is either completely impossible or massively harder. That doesn't mean cars make you unable to walk (though in some very extreme cases it could happen). It means some people that previously had no options, now at least have this inferior one.
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I'm glad to see someone mention addicts. I feel as if internet addiction, and especially subsets of it such as porn addiction, aren't given enough weight by either the addiction treatment community or the technical community. Before someone accuses me of being a conservative religious zealot as tends to happen when anyone denounces porn, I'll say that I'm far from a puritan and am extremely liberal in my social views…
Granting the facts, your hypothesis is equally plausible if reversed, to wit: People who have difficulty forming intimate relationships will often turn to habitual pornography viewing.
Not really. Unless you want to claim that the # of people having difficulty forming intimate relationships is spiking.
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The original SFSafariViewController did share cookies with regular Safari. The documentation says > In iOS 9 and 10, it shares cookies and other website data with Safari. I was also also disappointed that they removed it in iOS 11. But it's still a step-up from other even more horrible in-app browsers like in Instagram, which are implemented with WKWebView. I refuse to read anything in those in-app browsers; I always…
lol what you’re describing as a ‘feature’ is actually insecure & vulnerable. There are strong security reasons why Apple mandates WKWebView and bans SFSafari.
SFSafariViewController is not banned. It's recommended by Apple for some use cases. It says,
> If your app lets users view websites from anywhere on the Internet, use the SFSafariViewController class. If your app customizes, interacts with, or controls the display of web content, use the WKWebView class.
I'm quoting straight from the documentation. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs...
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You claim to be extremely liberal in your social views but then in the next breath make the assumptions that difficulty forming relationships today is significantly greater than in the past and further that this fact is due to effects that are caused (ultimately) by viewing porn. Those are both very socially conservative viewpoints and I have yet to find scientific data (or anything else I'd consider even remotely re…
I'm not GP, but you first say: > Those are both very socially conservative viewpoints and I have yet to find scientific data (or anything else I'd consider even remotely reliable) that back either of them up, particularly the second one. but then go on to yourself list many probably reasons why that's the case: > how do you suppose to show that this change is due to porn instead of, say, the prevalence of dating apps…
Yes, this is precisely my point. I see no obvious reason to believe the claims that were being made and no evidence for them is provided. I'm not saying "that's not the case" I'm saying "you couldn't possibly know that".
> I don't think there's a big difference between a social conservative (who typically want to use government force to restrict access to "bad things") and someone who sides with liberty and tolerance but would advise friends and family not to do "bad thing."
The socially conservative part is baselessly attributing various ills to porn. Admittedly anyone can commit such an error in logical reasoning but (in my personal experience) this particular one exhibits a very high correlation with being socially conservative.
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You claim to be extremely liberal in your social views but then in the next breath make the assumptions that difficulty forming relationships today is significantly greater than in the past and further that this fact is due to effects that are caused (ultimately) by viewing porn. Those are both very socially conservative viewpoints and I have yet to find scientific data (or anything else I'd consider even remotely re…
Where did I say that it's harder to form relationships today than it was in the past? I didn't. I said nothing of the sort nor did anything I say imply as much, if that was your takeaway then it exposes your implicit biases more than it does anything about myself.
> Where did I say that it's harder to form relationships today than it was in the past?
> I firmly believe that easy access porn is one of the worst things happening to the young men and women today.
"one of the worst things happening" is clear enough on its own. "young men and women" refers to the population at large. "today" is in contrast to historically
> I (23) know many men around my age who suffer from chronic porn addictions to the point that it severely impacts their ability for form real relationships
"many men" is not describing a rare phenomenon. "to the point that it severely impacts" is a clear attribution of cause and effect.
> median age of first exposure is getting lower and lower
Obvious meaning in context: things are getting worse over time.
> it exposes your implicit biases more than it does anything about myself
No, you are resorting to disingenuous semantic games because I pointed out the inconsistencies in what you wrote. Namely that you have provided absolutely no evidence for the things you are claiming and I see no obvious reason that they should be the case.
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I'm not the person that originally replied to you. Besides that's not what that person said. You just conjured the everyone out of thin air. That was not mentioned in your post and neither was it in theirs.
They said: > but then in the next breath make the assumptions that difficulty forming relationships today is significantly greater than in the past The implication being that I made the claim that it was broadly more difficult for most people today. I didn't realize that me adding "everyone" would so drastically change the meaning of their sentence. Please give me your interpretation of that if it isn't basically wha…
> I say that people with chronic porn addictions have a hard time forming relationships
Well originally you used wording that would imply a significant subset of the population. But even ignoring that it remains a completely baseless claim. How are you eliminating all of the other potential explanations that exist? And how are you arriving at the conclusion that the porn addiction is the cause of the problem as opposed to one of the effects?
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#398There is nothing of real value on Instagram. Just delete your account and never look back.
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Typically viewing to the detriment of your emotional/mental/physical health. If you consistently choose porn over real intimacy or if you overly desensitize yourself (porn-induced ED is a real, and quite common thing). The biggest concern is choosing porn over physical intimacy/attempts at physical intimacy. It's super easy for someone who maybe already isn't a social superstar to just find themselves choosing the ea…
You yourself recognize porn is an "easy option". Then no wonder people for whom it is hard to successfully form relationship that would lead to sex use it. It's like saying "cars are bad because it's too easy to just drive 100km instead of walking the same distance", ignoring the fact that for many people walking 100 km is either completely impossible or massively harder. That doesn't mean cars make you unable to wal…
Very, very few people truly have no options other than porn. But I'm sure many people have convinced themselves they don't since they can content themselves with porn.
Regardless, it's a feedback loop. People who deal with depression/anxiety are more likely to develop drug addictions. A "normal" person can usually try a given drug once and be fine. Someone with a predisposition to addiction can't do the same.
Likewise a lot of people can casually use porn without much of an issue, but some people allow their consumption to develop into an addiction that negatively impact their life.
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#400There is nothing of real value on Instagram. Just delete your account and never look back.
Um excuse me, how will people know I had an açai bowl for lunch?