Social media isnt the problem, smartphones are.
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CreepyMcCreeperson
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Dating apps too
People have become so lazy
People have become so lazy
I agree
I didn't have a smart phone until 2015. My attention span is far worse than it used to be.
I didn't have a smart phone until 2015. My attention span is far worse than it used to be.
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Most people didn't get smartphones that early. Maybe by like 2010.
Smartphones without the social media apps are not addictive
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I turn 40 in a few months. Anybody that’s in the age range of 35-45 and was outside KNOWS that smartphones didn’t cause issues UNTIL social media became prevalent which combined with the advancement of smartphones around 2011/2012 ish has caused the degradation of society socially.
Internet wasn’t even optimized for smartphones like that until early 2010s otherwise browsing was a pain in the ass having to utilize the desktop version. Plus we were browsing on 3g and later 4g LTE.
MySpace wasn’t even usable on a smartphone and by the time it was MySpace was dead. Facebook was a bare bones basic site and so was Twitter which had a character limit.
Things changed around 2015-2016.
Internet wasn’t even optimized for smartphones like that until early 2010s otherwise browsing was a pain in the ass having to utilize the desktop version. Plus we were browsing on 3g and later 4g LTE.
MySpace wasn’t even usable on a smartphone and by the time it was MySpace was dead. Facebook was a bare bones basic site and so was Twitter which had a character limit.
Things changed around 2015-2016.
This is a good breakdown, I would add that it was inching each year, each APP, each new iteration of social media, year by year, through the early 2010's, but like a lot of change, it's hard to notice, the way you watch yourself age, it was like that. It feels like you wake up one day and are suddenly not a teenager, but the changed are always present, just hard to see.
It may FEEL like we all woke up in 2016 to a changed world, but it was around us everyday, more and more.
Also, the Facebook NEWSFEED was huge. The like button. That was for pure user engagement dopamine. To keep you hooked. Sean Parker famously said that around 2010 people would tell him, "oh I'm not getting Facebook, I value my presence and in person experiences, and he would just say "we will get you eventually, watch"
2015: I can remember when it felt different, personally, when one of my boys who had the IPhone in 2007, Facebook since like 2006/2007, and was always up on social media, he was reading from his phone, and said "Johnny Depp just got in a bar fight in La Mesa" (La Mesa is a random town in Eastern San Diego)
and I said, without any real basis, no he didn't. And my boy said "i just read it on my news feed". So he shows me his phone, and it's a story, with a link to a clearly fake website. Told him you can't tell this is fake? And the rest is history. And this was someone who was considered smart, savvy, college educated. Business degree.