The "shit" to "good" ratio in literally every field was much less skewed to the "shit" side before smartphones and social media came along. It's always this same fallacy: "hey, that was always a thing!". Sure, drugs have "always" been a thing, but did you have fentanyl producing real-life zombie parades in the streets just ten years ago? If we make these reductionist claims, we can say just about every phenomenon was already a thing a hundred thousand years ago. We have to think about the degree to which something is occurring as well, and how it is taking place, not just try to dismiss it through knee-jerk intended retorts.

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nottorp 3 days ago | parent [-]

You missed my second statement, I think.

How about instead of lamenting the existence of social networking and smartphones (by the way, social networking has the same effect on a laptop), we try to educate people to not waste their time on "content"?

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Funes- 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

>You missed my second statement, I think.

I didn't. Nothing in my post could possibly make any reasonable person think I missed it. It bears no connection whatsoever to it, nor does it contradict anything I wrote.

>social networking has the same effect on a laptop

You carry your laptop literally everywhere you go and use it in every imaginable situation you can find yourself in for more than six straight hours every day? You really pull out your laptop while waiting in line at the grocery store? You text on it while driving? You use your laptop strolling down the street at any given moment, or at restaurants with friends, really?

Get real.

	▲	nottorp 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		... but what makes you pull out the phone while waiting in line at the grocery store? It's not the device's fault.

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alchemical_piss 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We’ve been trying to “educate” people on nutrition for a long time, but this country is still fat as hell.