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In Reply to: millions are dying intellectually by focusing on their online persona posted by Jazz Inmate on October 17, 2010 at 20:12:52:
>> Online social media is a relatively new phenomenon,>>
As was Television, as was radio, as was printed books.....
>> so you should take an honest look at its sociological effects instead of just assuming it's the same as rock compared to jazz or Tarzan compared to Sherlock Holmes.>>
Take a look at the social effects? Do tell how does one actually do that? What I see are the same old tired arguments made by every generation leveled against the new generation. And yet each generation manages to survive.
>> We have a generation growing up unable to deal with each other face to face.>>
Yes and we had a previous generation with poisoned minds thankt to T.V. that were posessed by Satan thanks to rock and roll, hopelessly addicted to drugs thanks to jazz, poised to be serial killers thanks to video games and heavy metal. My point being none of it was actually true, including the idea that we have a generation that is unable to deal with each other face to face.
>> They think reality is in a virtual world instead of in the real world.>>
Right, and the previous generation was excessively violent because they thought TV was a blueprint for real life. The generation Xers were all suicidal because of grunge rock and video games made everyone into killers. Oh and pot kills. I know I saw refer madness.
>> So now we have dates where people read from each other's online profiles instead of getting to know the other person.>>
"Instead of?" Is this like phone sex?
>> Meetings where people multitask on their handhelds instead of solve problems. The productivity lost and psychological effects will be hard to measure.>>
Bingo! "hard to measure" And yet according to you we have an entire generation that can't communicate face to face and think the cyberworld is the real world. Sorry but this does look the same to me as every single generational paranoid concern from the past that amounted to nothing.
>> And this site is not the problem, unless you think it's a gateway drug to others >>
If ever there was something that would make me think there is a painful lack of social skills due to the internet it would be this forum and others like it. And there in lies the great irony of Vic's comments.
Look, nothing personal, I just think this is just garden variety generational bias. Every generation sees themselves as cultured and well heeled and the pillar of meaningful values of every sort and the next generation as dysfunctional degenerates that will bring down civilization.
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Follow Ups
- RE: millions are dying intellectually by focusing on their online persona - Analog Scott 20:53:21 10/17/10 (4)
- "If ever there was something that would make me think there is a lack of social skills due to internet" - Jazz Inmate 22:44:43 10/17/10 (3)
- Jazz, this is like trying to talk sense into a heroine addict - Victor Khomenko 10:44:23 10/18/10 (1)
- You're right...we have a law here in California too, regarding the mobile devices - Jazz Inmate 12:40:24 10/18/10 (0)
- "Errrrr...have ya LOOKED at Facebook? Evidently not." - Analog Scott 07:42:45 10/18/10 (0)
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