This generations morale panic. It was games then before that TV and before that music, all apparently corrupting our children to greatly they would never come out as functioning adults, except strangely no ban was required. Social media hysteria is all just the same thing, the long list of inventions that the elderly didn’t understand and made bold claims about corruption of society that never came to pass. These things go a long way back and sometimes they are deadly (like witches) and sometimes just ridiculous (like short form stories).
Except no study ever found any evidence of video games or music being harmful to kids but there’s plenty of evidence of social media being really bad for them. So no, it’s not the same thing.
Social media is having a negative cognitive effect though. It isn’t just panic about something new. It’s affecting all users. It’s a worthwhile discussion to have.
social media is re-wiring adult brains too. it creates a delusional sense of reality for those who are deeply into it and that distortion filters out to everyone else. i can’t talk to social media users anymore because they live in a pocket universe in their heads and they are terrified to interact with people outside of the bubble.
music, movies, games, are all fictional. they aren’t distorting reality for most people the way social media is.
social media is also algorithmically driven to push your worse fears, anxieties, and other psychological triggers to keep you hooked. video games aren’t like that. nor is music or comic books or other new media.
That is true. The effects of social media shall not be applied to just the children and consequently also the teens, but to all the people. Such laws are basically half measures which do more harm than good.
Regulation is what should be done; if efficiency is what we strive for, why aren’t the corporations responsible for this not being regulated. A safe internet shall be safe for all - It is important to realise children grow up to be teenagers then adults just like everyone, such a disproportionate effort is completely unacceptable.
Why is it that we look at the ways the children circumvent this ban but not corporations?
This law is not made for the people, it is made for the corporations.
This generations morale panic. It was games then before that TV and before that music, all apparently corrupting our children to greatly they would never come out as functioning adults, except strangely no ban was required. Social media hysteria is all just the same thing, the long list of inventions that the elderly didn’t understand and made bold claims about corruption of society that never came to pass. These things go a long way back and sometimes they are deadly (like witches) and sometimes just ridiculous (like short form stories).
Except no study ever found any evidence of video games or music being harmful to kids but there’s plenty of evidence of social media being really bad for them. So no, it’s not the same thing.
Social media is having a negative cognitive effect though. It isn’t just panic about something new. It’s affecting all users. It’s a worthwhile discussion to have.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40777702/
social media is re-wiring adult brains too. it creates a delusional sense of reality for those who are deeply into it and that distortion filters out to everyone else. i can’t talk to social media users anymore because they live in a pocket universe in their heads and they are terrified to interact with people outside of the bubble.
music, movies, games, are all fictional. they aren’t distorting reality for most people the way social media is.
social media is also algorithmically driven to push your worse fears, anxieties, and other psychological triggers to keep you hooked. video games aren’t like that. nor is music or comic books or other new media.
That is true. The effects of social media shall not be applied to just the children and consequently also the teens, but to all the people. Such laws are basically half measures which do more harm than good.
Regulation is what should be done; if efficiency is what we strive for, why aren’t the corporations responsible for this not being regulated. A safe internet shall be safe for all - It is important to realise children grow up to be teenagers then adults just like everyone, such a disproportionate effort is completely unacceptable.
Why is it that we look at the ways the children circumvent this ban but not corporations? This law is not made for the people, it is made for the corporations.