Is addiction to technology and social media a modern phenomenon or was it present historically, just more widespread and possible today?
Is addiction to technology and social media a modern phenomenon or was it present historically...
Gabriel Torres
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Christian Foster
>addiction to technology
James Price
Le relevant XKCD :DDD
Grayson Garcia
The latter. Humans have always, with scattered exceptions, become used to convenient technology once it became available, and have come to see it as the new norm or baseline. As for social media, it's a faster and easier way, with a much broader reach, of doing what people were doing before. Fundamentally on the technological level, the Internet is like an much faster (on the order of 100,000-millions of times faster) way of sending letters.
Juan Torres
Abusing technology has always been part of the human nature.
Oliver Jackson
Cont. That said, to adopt a phrase ascribed to Stalin, "quantity has a quality all its own". Certainly the much greater speed and convenience of electronic communication compared to old methods introduces new emergent phenomena on top of merely the speed and convenience.
Lincoln Hernandez
the fuck you think you are doing here?
Ryder Wood
No, people are addicted to socialising and would sooner eat a bullet than spend a day without human contact
Social media is just another way of expressing this dependence
Gavin Martin
Lol guys hey look I drew something to show it as addicting I'm totally right aren't I guys look how deep I am I totally don't need to prove this beyond personal anecdotes
Jordan Evans
>xkcd.com
Notice how even the earliest examples are from after the industrial revolution.
Normies use examples like this to say 'beoble hab always say dis' but when you actually look at it the complaints from that era are pretty valid.
Henry Allen
So, I actually am pretty cautious about using things like TV, video games, and most social media (except Veeky Forums, which I'm basically addicted to), but I don't think you're entirely correct. Socrates was highly skeptical of the written word, which is why he didn't leave any writings.
Aaron Taylor
What do you mean by "addiction" in this instance exactly? Because a culture becomes dependent on certain technologies once they reach a large enough widespread use, but that doesn't mean people are "addicted" to using the technology, because it's not a psychiatric disorder.
The fact is that cultures have value-structures and it's just a coincidence that our is as utilitarian and science-fixated as it is, but it's not a given what a culture values.
Blake Richardson
This. It's just an extension of how we've always been.
Kevin Diaz
its only in the last 5 years or so tech companies are hiring addiction neurophysics experts to try and emulate the gambling industry
Samuel Johnson
Well compulsive video gaming was finally labelled an addiction recently.
Benjamin Barnes
That's a good point - it's not like every advancement from caveman times to the modern age is harmful. But it's also a fallacy to say that no complaints about 'progress' are valid.
Landon Reyes
Powerful image, really made me think
Zachary Brooks
>were people addicted to a thing before it existed
Tyler Nguyen
Who the fuck even comes up with these drawings
Kayden Butler
Insufferable pseudohippy cunts that unironically shill for the latest zeitgeist rehash
Aaron Rodriguez
What is the latest zeitgeist rehash that is being shilled for here?