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A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
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#42I 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 bi…
Agree - the entire movie made no sense. "The Oasis" would be one of many competing worlds, if it's worth trillions of dollars why wouldn't someone make a competitor? The challenges would have been solved in a day, the characters act like they see, feel and hear everything in VR but really the experience would never be the same as RL. Why would you wear a haptic suit if it can hurt you when you get punched?
None of it made any sense. But it had some references to back to the future and other "geek" stuff, so everyone loved it.
Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#43A 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,…
The best way to approach this is to start by mechanically removing the possibility of doing the thing you wish to avoid. In the cases you mention: - An alarm clock without a snooze button: https://www.amazon.com/Travelwey-Clock-Outlet-Powered-Operat... - An app that you can use to block facebook and other sites from your phone: https://freedom.to/ There are people who claim that this sort of thing is 'a crutch'. Thes…
As someone who's pretty pathetically addicted to the internet at times, having Freedom on my laptop and phone has been a huge plus.
I'm sure I could work around it very easily (I know I can on the laptop) but the shame factor involved is enough to stop me generally and I'm surprised there isn't a huge market for this kind of thing. Been gradually limiting my usage of certain sites down to tiny windows of the day and it's left me with so much more time. Along with that, it's largely removed those sites from my reflex routine of checking for updates... several of them I've just dropped entirely.
Used a few free ones beforehand and the risk of it messing up my hosts file or w/e was always too high to actively recommend to anyone.
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#44> were built by young men who couldn’t conceive of all the ways things could go wrong
False. They knew exactly what they were doing. I know because Jaron Lanier and Sean Parker were there.
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#45It'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…
> The video game world is disconnected from reality, involves long story lines, planning, strategy, skills that you can learn.
Maybe your video game world. The vast majority of games sold out there, across the years, were games like PacMan, Super Mario, FPS shooters and flash games similar to Candy Crush.
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#46It'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…
Yes, there have been a lot of concern about novels spoiling girls.
Not only girls. They were thought as "unmanly" for a while. Men were supposed to read technical and historical books, not "girly" novels. There's even a quip from Napoleon about it.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And we "binge" on TV shows now which didn't really exist in the 70s. Isn't that an improvement overall? You decide you want to watch something and you watch until it's finished. Media consumption habits in the TV era were much more passive and a lot of people would watch a show just because it was on. "There's nothing good on TV" used to be a common lamentation, I wouldn't be surprised if this generation is better…
Reading ability must be the goal with the criticism though? If it's just listening to a story you might as well watch it, or play it.
Many people listen to audiobooks in situations where they can't watch or play things, like driving or working out.
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#48Earlier 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?
You've just illustrated in your own comment that it really isn't as much about the number of participants as it is about the random distribution of participants.
Would you think it was any better if it was 3000 people from the same area rather than 300? Probably not a lot.
If you pick 300 or more random people throughout the country, you've going to get a pretty accurate representation of the average person.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
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Re: A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
#50It'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…
>remember the 70s and 80s, when TV and video games were supposed to turn us all into zombies? What happened? We eventually learned Did we? A third of teens haven't read a book in the last year. And we "binge" on TV shows now which didn't really exist in the 70s.
I’m 40 and I can count the actual books I’ve read in the last five years on two hands probably. I read voraciously, but I just don’t read books.