I wonder if SE would remove the Z title?

[Breakbeat]

I must be out of the loop.
What's wrong with Zed?

Zed's dead, baby.

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On topic, humans should stop letting the Internet raise their kids. No tablets when you're 2, no TikTok when you're five. No, nope and no way.

Why? Because the Internet teaches nothing about dealing with your own internal pain and disappointments. Instead of teaching people how to handle the feeling that arises when some trivial circumstance "bothers you," the Internet teaches people to post a diatribe somewhere and wait for the likes.

Problem? One can get likes for anything... even the most depraved, disgusting ideas, or fears that are nonsensical and unfounded. With 7 billion people around, you can get some people to agree with anything. ESPECIALLY wacky theories or antisocial solutions to problems.

Before Social Media: "This is bothering me. I'll talk to my (parents / siblings / friends / doctor / teacher / etc.) and they'll help me work it out."
After Social Media: "This is bothering me. I shall post my problems on the Internet, dig in and insist that I am right. Everyone who doesn't think like me is a troll."

DEAR HUMANS: Bring your issues to another human in-person. Preferably someone more mature than yourself, and let them teach you how to handle it.

Not, "Dear Reddit, ZOMG this (thing) needs to be removed from (part of life) because in this circumstance here, it has a bad connotation."

In 100 years people will look at social media the way we look at 100-year-old ads for bottles of Bayer's Heroin ("Recommended by more doctors!") or seventy-year-old ads for Chesterfield Cigarettes ("Smoked by more physicians!"). That is, with disgust. And disbelief we ever thought these things were OK.

Social media is messing us up badly, as a people. We're losing our ability to rationally deal with nearly anything.

[Jagick]

Zed's dead, baby.

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On topic, humans should stop letting the Internet raise their kids. No tablets when you're 2, no TikTok when you're five. No, nope and no way.

Why? Because the Internet teaches nothing about dealing with your own internal pain and disappointments. Instead of teaching people how to handle the feeling that arises when some trivial circumstance "bothers you," the Internet teaches people to post something somewhere and wait for the likes.

Problem? One can get likes for anything... even the most depraved, disgusting ideas, or fears that are nonsensical and unfounded. With 7 billion people around, you can get some people to agree with anything. ESPECIALLY wacky theories or antisocial solutions to problems.

DEAR HUMANS: Bring your issues to another human in-person. Preferably someone more mature than yourself, and let them teach you how to handle it.

Not, "Dear Reddit, ZOMG this (thing) needs to be removed from (part of life) because in this circumstance here, it has a bad connotation."

In 100 years people will look at social media the way we look at 100-year-old ads for bottles of "Bayer's Heroin (Recommended by more doctors!)" or seventy-year-old ads for Chesterfield Cigarettes ("Smoked by more physicians!").

That is, with disgust. And disbelief we ever thought these things were OK.

Social media is messing us up badly, as a people. We're losing our ability to rationally deal with nearly anything.

Agreed, and further more I'd say the advent of the Smartphone and easy instant access to the entire internet for every person no matter where they were has been our downfall in my opinion. The internet (and human culture as a whole) has just taken a nosedive in a more and more noticeable way ever since 2007.