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Can we switch social media off for 8 hours per day, 9-5pm maybe. I think it would make everyone happier and I bet nobody would miss it.
I remember when stores used to be closed on Sundays. We can close social media on Sundays and reopen monday morning aha
The calmness of the city outweighs the mild and easily planned-around inconvenience.
> “Social media research has largely assumed that [so-called] social media addiction is going to follow the same framework as drug addiction,” said Turner. Orben’s team and others argue that this is likely to be oversimplistic and are investigating whether the teenagers cluster into groups whose behaviour can be predicted by other personality traits. > It could be that, for some, their relationship is akin to a behav…
Later it dawns on you that sure, like everybody else you have weaknesses and traumas that you've learned to cope with, but that doesn't excuse some people deliberately designing and pushing a product to specifically exploit that. That should give you dose of healthy positive anger of the kind that is transformative when acted upon.
When did we lose the moral authority to make things illegal for minors? I believe in 50-100 years it will be a worldwide scandal that these skinner boxes were ever given to children let alone adults. AI optimised attention slideshow that likely drains you neurochemically and disrupts your reward circuitry the same way heroin or ecstasy does? On paper this shit should clearly be regulated.
Overdramatic. Social media may be bad but it is not like heroin or ecstasy. Engaging in moral panics, on the other hand, seems to provide a high to some individuals just like heroin or ecstasy. Let's regulate them instead.
They told us that we couldn't rely on it being pure, because hers was pure and it killed her. They told us we couldn't be sure it would be safe for us if we'd already tried it before, because this was her second time and it killed her.
They never told us she'd actually died from drinking approximately 7 litres of water in 90 minutes. But they did fire someone for truthfully saying the drug itself was no more dangerous than riding a horse.
I just hope they do better than we did with cigarettes, and the boomers did with nature.
Can we switch social media off for 8 hours per day, 9-5pm maybe. I think it would make everyone happier and I bet nobody would miss it.
When did we lose the moral authority to make things illegal for minors? I believe in 50-100 years it will be a worldwide scandal that these skinner boxes were ever given to children let alone adults. AI optimised attention slideshow that likely drains you neurochemically and disrupts your reward circuitry the same way heroin or ecstasy does? On paper this shit should clearly be regulated.
I strongly agree with your point, it should be possible to ban this stuff for minors at least. Under 13s are already effectively banned but banning all minors altogether would be much more effective.
Can we switch social media off for 8 hours per day, 9-5pm maybe. I think it would make everyone happier and I bet nobody would miss it.
That's a great idea. Utah thinks so too. Well, at least between 10:30 PM to 6:30 AM https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title13/Chapter63/13-63-S105.html?...
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Panic is uncontrolled activity done in response to a threat. If any productive action happens in a panic, it is by chance. Chance, therefore, moral panic is a poor way to actually solve a problem or improve ones life. Opportunistic entites may utilize moral panic toward political goals in the same way as boogeymen or scapegoats. One might think this validates moral panic, but I don't see it as translating to obeying…
You are being selectively pedantic; a hallmark of bad faith engagement.
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Plenty of people use it responsibly. Why should they be punished just because some people can't seem to control their behavior?
That’s good because a quick poll where I am everyone says they would like to reduce social media usage!
The day I removed all FB apps (FB, messenger) was the happiest phone-owning day for me since getting it for the first time.