Océane (@oceane)

Alonealastalovedalongthe @Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe

2y

Gotta love how it is STILL a trope that social media, smartphones and technology are destroying our attention spans while simultaneously young people have mostly replaced getting their knowledge from vanishingly brief snippets of talking heads on massive news channels or radio stations with a constellation of media all the way from short tiktok videos to multi-hour youtube essays on gender or politics.

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist

2y

@Alonealastalovedalongthe Yes they do. Any kind of addiction does that, just like having to go to pee.

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist

2y

@Alonealastalovedalongthe Sure, a new kind of noosphere is emerging, and we must defend it – but this isn't a reason to defend the way personal communications are implemented on an insecure protocol by a dude who wakes up at 11am.

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist

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@Alonealastalovedalongthe FYI, monthly data caps channel young internet users just into this. Go watch a 3-hours YouTube video with 500MB/month, heh?

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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist

2y

@Alonealastalovedalongthe But anyway, when you're addicted to an arbitrary social media platform, not only will you consume just that, you'll see time spent outside of this platform – e.g. in other tabs – as lost. I guess it's similar for other kinds of addiction but I haven't done a deep dive into these yet.

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