Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 14:14:59

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to boraxman on Tue Jan 25 2022 07:10 pm

 > By the way, I have never met you nor you I, but here we are conversing acros
 > some unknown distance great or small. Whether the device that enables us to
 > access this technology fits into the palm of our hand or not is irrelevant.
 > 

The thing is that I have read somewhere that ailments from constant
availability of social media are already starting to show up in studies.

The problem is not that I can read of news that happen at the other side of the
world, or that I can carry most of my social interactions through a formal
environment with a formal structure (such as a BBS) instead of having to rely
on my natural social skills.

Issues are more of the type "Average psyche can handle being inferior to X
people, and if it finds it is inferior to more than X people, it starts
developping stress and steem disorders". Which is the nerdy way of saying that
if you connect to a social network on which you folow 400 people and find 398
of them are having what looks like a better life than yours, it may eventually
wear you down.

THe fun part is that a lot of people who are pretending to be having a great
time 24/7 by posting party pictures everywhere are often as much of a loser as
the next crackhead :-)

Addictions and other disorders ("doomscrolling" comes to mind) are not unheard
off and in fact I think Social Media adiction is recogniced as an official
disorder in Europe.

So yea, I don't think it is the great illness of our days which will destroy us
all, but it is not harmless either.

I personally stay in small communities, such as IRC networks operated by my
friends and I, or BBS nets with a low user count. THat way I can get a stream
of information I can reasonably digest without overloading myself and I don't
have to risk running into 350 people who looks like they are doing better than
me in life :-P


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