The world was a better place without the internet and social media.
There would be less radicalism.
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No, thereâs just as much, itâs just easier to see it now.
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This is like a junkie only talking about the positive effects their hard drugs have. Nobody thinks there arenât benefits to smart phones, it is just that many think the often ignored negative effects are causing society to regress in many ways. They are also quite addictive.
I have computer at home. I have pocket computer on go. Beep, boop.
no way 100% false. The world is the same, you just see more of it now.
Definitely a simpler time w/ out social media and smart everything.
âFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasnât the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that theyâd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.â
Douglas Adams
The Hitchikersâ Guide to the Galaxy
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Then perhaps these people can make changes to their lives to mitigate the problem that they perceive.
As with any activity there is a sense of addiction that can happen and with smartphones it can be easy to get addicted to the type of instant gratification - but this mostly stems from the personâs involvement in social media. There is always a root cause.
It makes it easier for them to coordinate and build a larger following though. Back before the internet the circle of influence would be much smaller, say 50 miles. Now these nut jobs can recruit people from anywhere on the planet.
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I mean, thatâs assuming theyâre ârecruitingâ and not just âconnectingâ.
Mostly though the internet has just allowed us to see how crazy some people are, silly flat earthers.
âSome technologies have made it possible for one to travel to the other side of the world in order to see something, whereas some have made that unnecessary: if it were not for things such as the camera and the Internet, some African boys would have never seen a Chinese womanâs snatch.â
â Mokokoma Mokhonoana, F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms
im gonna quickly google a link to support an argument against you⌠on my smartphone⌠1 secâŚ
(jk⌠its just different. maybe not better or worse⌠just⌠different)