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Tech and social media are making us feel lonelier than ever:
You've had a social day. Two hundred Facebook friends posted birthday messages, your video of Mr. Meow shredding the toilet paper stash got dozens of retweets, and all the compliments on your latest Instagram selfie have you strutting with an extra swagger. Still, you can't help but notice an ache that can only be described as loneliness.
That we feel this way even when hyperconnected might seem like a contradiction. But the facts are clear: Constant virtual connections can often amplify the feeling of loneliness.
"Internet-related technologies are great at giving us the perception of connectedness," says Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, a Stanford University psychiatrist who's written about the intersection of psychology and tech. The truth, he says, is the time and energy spent on social media's countless connections may be happening at the expense of more rooted, genuinely supportive and truly close relationships.
If virtual socializing cannot substitute for the real thing, will social media prove out to be nothing more than a fad of the late 20th and early 21st centuries?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @01:38AM (2 children)
Your first link goes to something labelled as Sungazer, whatever you meant.
Listened for one minute. Horrible shit. Worse than rap, which isn't even Music.
Why did you link to that? Some kind of joke? Mind Blown? By what, crappy performance of horrible noise? There is enough noise pollution in real life without people purposefully creating more.
Oh, wait. Was that a clever allegory about the 99.99999...% of the Internet that is horrible, pointless, aggravating, mind-numbing noise?
Oh, I get it.
Mind Blown.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:42AM
You may be one that like better 2/4 march tempos.
If still curious how they came with that and why is mind blowing (for some), watch the link that follows in my comment and this one [youtube.com]. Fair warning: prepare yourself for the horror of being exposed to sheet music [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday June 20 2020, @03:13AM
I would characterize it as an aharmonic syncopated study of variable timing. Far better than rap.
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