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: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday June 20 2020, @03:18PM (1 child)
Some things to read on this topic:
https://jmichaelhudson.net/asocial-media-refugee/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
https://archive.is/rZ6d6 [archive.is] zuck hoodie
https://archive.is/Vk4cw [archive.is] who controls america https://files.catbox.moe/uad1xi.png [catbox.moe]
https://archive.is/SoybE [archive.is] apple bananas
https://archive.is/8TQss [archive.is] organic promotion
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths [meaningness.com]
https://meaningness.com/comment/2493#comment-2493 [meaningness.com]
https://archive.is/iOckl [archive.is] eglin info
https://jmichaelhudson.net/identifying-police-state-infiltration-in-civilian-organizations/ [jmichaelhudson.net]
tl:dr your culture and civilization are under attack, this is 5th generation warfare, and if you are not aware of it, you will just thinnk you are lonely and have a difficult life because random chance and bad luck, or worse, that it is all your fault.
A human being needs a tribe, they are making it impossible for anyone besides themselves to have one, and so people are hating life, making bad decisions, and dropping like flies.
Spread this message far and wide, and we might have a chance, not just to have fun, but to survive and not be slaves living in cages.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @03:48PM
Really hammering your anti-semitism but hiding it behind generalities. Ultimate dog whistler jmichaelMcBigot.
Last I checked the Australian Murdoch was a grester force of evil and manipulation than anyone else.