There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me.
I don’t think you could have made a similar argument about heavy trash tv watchers. They may have had less to talk about, you may have found them less interesting, but it didn’t literally alter their personalities.
We have a big problem.
I think it is much worse with social media, the content is a lot more niche and the algorithms a lot more addictive.
It's not so much the weird stuff they say, I think that is fairly normal, especially the younger you go. It's the inability to do anything in person without talking constant phone breaks that I find most worrying.
So weird/eerie to go into an In-N-Out Burger or something, and see a table full of teenagers just sitting there silently scrolling their phones. Feels like we're in an episode of the Twilight Zone sometimes.
Not just teenagers, too. You'll see grown ass adults sitting there, technically together but totally absorbed into their phones.
I want a TikTok-era Bowling Along examining the impact modern single feed social media has had on group participation in the new generations...
(Even if it's a typo you should probably claim it as a sub-conscious coinage, since it's quite clever.)
It’s sad, but also unbearable to be in her presence. The way she screams at her parents is so embarrassing. I feel bad for her parents, but they also coddled her to death and continue to to this day.
So, just how outraged is she about Lindsay Clancy not having been acquitted?
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Most language is invented by children and most of what they invent dies pretty quickly. You transition from not noticing it's new because you weren't alive before to keeping up to falling behind to getting annoyed.
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Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
We're both in our late 40s so we grew up before the Internet but then aged into it.
Our political views were very different and yet the lengthy conversation that we had was not just polite but also oddly relaxing. We found ourselves finding common ground and even persuading each other to grow our views on some topics.
When I left he told me that this was the nicest most interesting conversation he's had in a long time and I agreed.
And then I remembered having these conversations all the time when I was in my late teens and early to late 20s and that trying to have these conversations in the last decade was always futile so I stopped.
And then I remembered being ashamed of myself several times for being dysregulated and defensive and even volatile, guilty of what you describe and aware of it, not just online but also in person.
So yes I agree with you about what you're saying but sadly I don't know of a solution.
Where else would they get English listening and reading? They dont speak English in their local town.
>guy from a village in eastern europe
Same for me, except it's people who don't read books.
I think about that one a lot.