According to a growing body of research, smartphones make you dumber, more sociopathic, depressed, and anxious. Apart from that, everything is just fine.
My eldest is a light user of the interweb. He mainly looks up old episodes of Top Gear to watch (petrol head in the making) and cat videos. He's currently deep into A-levels so has minimal spare time, which in any event is taken up with training as he's now in the England karate squad. He's well rounded, sensible and has a quirky sense of humour.
Younger son watches science videos on YouTube plus a fair amount of brain rot. He's highly academic and uses it to destress from school. He's not on Facebook or Instagram but uses discord to connect with mates. He's grumpy, snappy and difficult to talk to at times. 🤷♀️ Both are autistic, but were diagnosed long before they had use of phones.
Ironic that I'm typing this on my smartphone.....
I can see how being disconnected from real life could induce the social awkwardness experienced by autistic people, but autism is much more than that and a full diagnostic process would expose the true autistics from the phone addicts. The problem is in some areas the waiting lists are so long folk have been diagnosed over bloody Zoom by a nurse, which is wholly inadequate. A proper evaluation and dx requires a team of professionals and a full history being taken, looking at earliest childhood right back to babyhood.
There's no doubt social media is addictive. I came off X as it was becoming a problem. I've given minimal details on farcebook and block ads and suggested pages to avoid getting sucked in, my time is precious I'd rather spend it engaged in something with purpose. Also - there are far too many idiots on there. It never ceases to amaze me how the least intelligent person thinks abuse is the perfect response to a perfectly valid comment. "We used to have village idiots. Now with the Internet the fckers have gone global".
I am too old for this...$7 a month...$79 a year. $1000 for any hope at all. I think this is pretty funny and there is a part of me the plays the sardonic off the wall mental game every day. Not many people get it. I think 75 years on this planet and in America the Declining is making me dumber, but maybe it is Psally the Psmart phone that is surgically attached to my hand. Good luck , Sir Gage.
My eldest is a light user of the interweb. He mainly looks up old episodes of Top Gear to watch (petrol head in the making) and cat videos. He's currently deep into A-levels so has minimal spare time, which in any event is taken up with training as he's now in the England karate squad. He's well rounded, sensible and has a quirky sense of humour.
Younger son watches science videos on YouTube plus a fair amount of brain rot. He's highly academic and uses it to destress from school. He's not on Facebook or Instagram but uses discord to connect with mates. He's grumpy, snappy and difficult to talk to at times. 🤷♀️ Both are autistic, but were diagnosed long before they had use of phones.
Ironic that I'm typing this on my smartphone.....
I can see how being disconnected from real life could induce the social awkwardness experienced by autistic people, but autism is much more than that and a full diagnostic process would expose the true autistics from the phone addicts. The problem is in some areas the waiting lists are so long folk have been diagnosed over bloody Zoom by a nurse, which is wholly inadequate. A proper evaluation and dx requires a team of professionals and a full history being taken, looking at earliest childhood right back to babyhood.
There's no doubt social media is addictive. I came off X as it was becoming a problem. I've given minimal details on farcebook and block ads and suggested pages to avoid getting sucked in, my time is precious I'd rather spend it engaged in something with purpose. Also - there are far too many idiots on there. It never ceases to amaze me how the least intelligent person thinks abuse is the perfect response to a perfectly valid comment. "We used to have village idiots. Now with the Internet the fckers have gone global".
Christopher, “the clap” is chlamydia, not syphilis. So, not literary at all!
Actually, it'd gonohrrea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonorrhea
Brilliant! Muphry's Law in action!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
No way. Who hasn't had boring old chlamydia?
I am too old for this...$7 a month...$79 a year. $1000 for any hope at all. I think this is pretty funny and there is a part of me the plays the sardonic off the wall mental game every day. Not many people get it. I think 75 years on this planet and in America the Declining is making me dumber, but maybe it is Psally the Psmart phone that is surgically attached to my hand. Good luck , Sir Gage.
I didn't know Hindu cows grinned! Thank God for smart phones. I learn something interesting every day!
Well snarked, Mr. Gage!
I've avoided using Idiocracy references. Too soon; too close to home...
But regarding silicon, you might appreciate this one: https://open.substack.com/pub/joelelorentzen/p/platforms-for-truth-cheese-vs-plastic?r=1p5p1m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Keep up the good work!