A generation of addicts

[xlrsnbrgParticipant 1786]

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A generation that doesn’t have the coping mechanisms to handle stress, that grew up in a world of instant gratification. Everything you want you can have instantaneously. Except job satisfaction and strength of relationships. There’s no app for that.

There’s a lot more in the video. Enjoy.

A man shouldn't make his life's objective to be on the side of the majority, but to avoid finding himself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

I saw this a while back. I can imagine some millennials being butthurt over this video, but I think he’s pretty fair: he knows they were dealt a bad hand.

Women are better at multitasking? Fucking up several things at once is not multitasking.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

I have a cheap cell phone that I use to make a few calls. I don’t take it with me. People used to search for a pay phone to make a call. Making a call meant you had something of value to say to someone. Now, people can just text nonsense all day long. Their lives are constantly interrupted by phone calls. It’s annoying to be around them.

When I hike in the mountains, there’s no interruptions. I leave the internet behind me and experience life as it is. I observe the world in its natural state and it’s a peaceful experience.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

I see phone addicts every day when I go bike riding along the Illinois Prairie Path. When I bike ride, I’m coming up behind someone who’s so focused on the phone, they don’t even know of what’s going on around them, and I have to watch them to avoid running them over. I’m frankly sick of it! I shouldn’t have to watch after someone who won’t watch out themselves, because they refuse to put the f~~~ing phone down!

My young college cousins on my obnoxious aunt’s kids are text addicts. Even at the dinner table, they have their phones with them texting instead of it being family time. It bugs me when I see young people obsessing over their stupid phones as if that’s all life is for them.

The guy in the video is right. We have raised a bunch of tech addicts. Take that phone, computer or video game away, and these kids are lost, asking “what do I do now?” To some of these kids, their whole life is the phone or video game or computer. Trouble is that technology is too attractive, and kids get suckered into the attractiveness of tech. I was a tech slave for a long time, but I got over it when I decided to go bike riding every day, and go to the gym to burn off all that weight I piled on.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[President SnowParticipant 72]

ResidentEvil7 wrote:

“I see phone addicts every day…”

“My young college cousins on my obnoxious aunt’s kids are text addicts. Even at the dinner table, they have their phones with them texting instead of it being family time. It bugs me when I see young people obsessing over their stupid phones as if that’s all life is for them.”

“We have raised a bunch of tech addicts. Take that phone, computer or video game away, and these kids are lost, asking “what do I do now?” To some of these kids, their whole life is the phone or video game or computer. Trouble is that technology is too attractive, and kids get suckered into the attractiveness of tech.”

It’s a very common problem, and it’s far from an accident. The problem with current consumer technology is not within the realm of capabilities, but that of design. Consumer tech is designed to be as engaging as possible and compete for your time compared to other tech. It’s the same principle as YouTube’s “time-on-site” strategy: consumers are meant to spend as much time on their site as possible, and more than on any other site. Phone apps are designed similarly, vying for popularity, adoption, and most importantly, overall use by all consumers per day.

The problem is that there is no agreed upon code of ethics in UX design yet. Right now, all tech is designed as “competitive” to the human cognition, meaning that when the tech falls away or disappears (e.g. a power outage), people haven’t learned anything from the tech and are just as lost as they were before they got the tech.

“Complementary” tech, however, is when the tech teaches or gives humans something that they can do even when they ditch the tech. Books or sites like Lynda.com, for example, can teach you all manners of skills to use in everyday life. If you’re a decent learner, you can easily read a book once and then apply that knowledge in the real world. Unfortunately, most current-generation technologies are not meant to produce post-tech productivity, but mere consumption.

Video games are the biggest transgressor in this regard, as developers have mastered the art of engagement. By deliberately pacing out the process getting achievements, trophies, loot, and other rewards in games, they effectively emulate a metaphorical morphine drip, systematically giving the player a shot of dopamine just on time to keep playing a little longer (“Just five more minutes, mom”).

Tech is wonderful, but only when designed properly.

[xlrsnbrgParticipant 1786]

President Snow wrote:

Video games are the biggest transgressor in this regard, as developers have mastered the art of engagement.

True. They have accurate mathematical models that can predict very well how addictive the game will be before it is even released. For example Exploring user experiences as predictors of MMORPG addiction.

A man shouldn't make his life's objective to be on the side of the majority, but to avoid finding himself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)

[ObserverParticipant 209]

Very insightful. Thanks for sharing.

[CLDGRFParticipant 0]

Nature is the solution.

Switch that phone off and go to the zoo, hiking, cycling etc.
I do that regularly, sometimes my phone is on flightmode for days.
I´m regularly visiting he Frankfurt Zoo, or walk through the woods in my living area.

Even though i play videogames a lot and in generals spend much time in front of my PC, i can just switch it off and go find inner peace in nature.

"Never trust a cunt" - Dad (literally said CUNT lul)

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