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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
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(08-08-2017, 08:24 AM)gabrielle Wrote: The thing is, the headline for this article doesn't really come to the right conclusion.  It's not smartphones that are ruining people's lives, it's social media.  Teens aren't compulsively checking their phones throughout the night to look up facts or even to watch the latest pop video over again, they're checking for updates on whatever social media they use and seeing how many likes or whatever they have gotten.  As stated in the article, it has been documented that people who use Facebook frequently are more likely to be depressed than those who do not.  Smart phones are simply making it easier to feed the addiction.

That is the problem. As soon as people got recording devices they could listen to the same song over and over until they tired of it; now they can do this with video. It's easy to say that such was a waste of time, but

 People can easily think that they need to validate themselves to determine how popular they are. Facebook offers a means.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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RE: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - by pbrower2a - 08-09-2017, 04:15 AM

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