| ▲ | asdff 6 hours ago |
| Put it this way: is it good for a child to spend an appreciable fraction of their day browsing social media? Did children previously just have free hours at hand to burn on this? The answer is of course no, there are not more hours in the day after the creation of social media, so its usage comes at the cost of something else in that child's life, usually their precious little downtime where they might plan and think about their own life. Or maybe at the cost of other activities that might be more engaging physically or mentally. |
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| ▲ | eli 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| In the 1940s that was pretty much the same argument deployed against the moral panic of that time: comic books. |
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| ▲ | asdff 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The difference is children back then actually did see their day expand as they were removed from the workforce, making comic book consumption "free" essentially in terms of what it might have replaced just a generation previous. | | |
| ▲ | eli 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | That feels like a stretch. In the 1850s it was pulp novels and in the 1990s it was video games. |
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| ▲ | Aerroon 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And later you had the satanic D&D. Every generation seems to pick their moral panic and then engages in "unintentional concern trolling" over it. The people mean well, but low quality evidence shouldn't be good enough to condemn things. | | |
| ▲ | ben_w 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Indeed. The question is, how good is the evidence? Serious question, given it kinda feels like Meta's been acting like cigarette companies back in their heyday, while X is acting like it's the plot device of a James Bond villain. | |
| ▲ | TheOtherHobbes 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | D&D isn't designed to be addictive, and hasn't been used to psych-profile its users or influence elections. | | |
| ▲ | eli an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It was designed to be boring? | |
| ▲ | camillomiller 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | False dichotomies all the way. I feel like any discussion around meta and social media on this platform brings out the most obnoxious sycophants. |
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| ▲ | rpdillon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This line of reasoning has been applied to TV for the last 50 years as well. |
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| ▲ | nl 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why not ban computer games then? |
