Because of smartphones. I was watching 200 poor hispanic kids today and you can sort of see why the world is obsessed with smartphones. They are not very well educated, but suddenly have this toy that makes movies and enables them to play video games and cartoons and text and put pictures on people's social network page.
I'm surprised that it hasn't been worse than it has been. Meaning that I would have thought that they'd be constantly insulting each other online resulting in huge crying fits and fights. You can see some of the online fighting, but it has mostly stayed in control.
I saw an article though that said the government in China believes 10% of teenagers are addicted to the internet and they send them to bootcamps. The article also said that scientists there believe that internet addiction, which they define as using it for six or more hours a day decreases the brain's capacity or processing by 10%.
What I see is that it retards development and makes 18 year olds that seem like they are 13 or maybe 15. I'm not an expert on chlid development. I can't say how young they seem. Teenagers where I work seem really immature. They also seem too trusting, too open, and really distracted.
I think 25% of Millenials living in the US still live with their parents though. If they all had to go out and have jobs and not have anyone else pay for things maybe violence and crime would go up.
I don't wanna talk a conspirational agenda into this, I rather put it under the paragraph "mankind shall become a superficial easy to control crowd". You know, when Jobs created the idea for Iphone, he didn't think about what the consequences for society. Neither so Zuckerberg. They were only interested in building up their enterprises (in Apple's case: saving it). The typical American story of a chief smiling before the audience at the tech exhibition and talking how wonderful and useful for everyone his invention is. The rest was very well with this as it wouldn't put effort into education of people and making them start asking questions. No-one should tell they couldn't know that circumstances like this could happen. You already had this in the 90s with the rise of regular mobile telephones - students playing round with them more than to pay attention in class. It's a total lie to claim that.
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Date: 31 October 2015 01:22 am (UTC)I'm surprised that it hasn't been worse than it has been. Meaning that I would have thought that they'd be constantly insulting each other online resulting in huge crying fits and fights. You can see some of the online fighting, but it has mostly stayed in control.
I saw an article though that said the government in China believes 10% of teenagers are addicted to the internet and they send them to bootcamps. The article also said that scientists there believe that internet addiction, which they define as using it for six or more hours a day decreases the brain's capacity or processing by 10%.
What I see is that it retards development and makes 18 year olds that seem like they are 13 or maybe 15. I'm not an expert on chlid development. I can't say how young they seem. Teenagers where I work seem really immature. They also seem too trusting, too open, and really distracted.
I think 25% of Millenials living in the US still live with their parents though. If they all had to go out and have jobs and not have anyone else pay for things maybe violence and crime would go up.
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Date: 31 October 2015 06:59 am (UTC)You know, when Jobs created the idea for Iphone, he didn't think about what the consequences for society. Neither so Zuckerberg.
They were only interested in building up their enterprises (in Apple's case: saving it).
The typical American story of a chief smiling before the audience at the tech exhibition and talking how wonderful and useful for everyone his invention is.
The rest was very well with this as it wouldn't put effort into education of people and making them start asking questions.
No-one should tell they couldn't know that circumstances like this could happen. You already had this in the 90s with the rise of regular mobile telephones - students playing round with them more than to pay attention in class.
It's a total lie to claim that.