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Whats scary bout social media/messaging technology

 
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12/16/2015 05:46 AM
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Whats scary bout social media/messaging technology
We don't know the long term effects it will have on us. When I was 18 (2009) I realized theres something wrong about it all. It seems like we keep going further and further down the rabbit hole of phones and "selfies"

Im glad I got to experience being thrown out of the house at 4 or 5 with my older brother, making friends with the other kids like they used to do in the old days. I don't think kids get to experience that kind of social setting.

I think its scary because everyone is so addicted and distracted it makes us lose sight of what being human is about. We don't know how its going to affect us after many generations, will we have buried our heads in our phones for so long we'll forget how to really embrace/acknowledge somebody? It starts with the kids and I think up until the techno boom humanity has done a great job knowing what life is about.

My buddies father, (who grew up in the 60s) told me this once and it was the most profound thing ive heard reguarding the subject.

"I used to have a life before all that shit (the internet)."
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12/16/2015 06:40 AM
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Doesnt take much to look around at a group of kids and see they all have their heads facing down, devolving in a sense but at the same if it can be balanced, they'll grow faster.

Slippery slope.
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12/19/2015 06:41 AM
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Im probably just going to end up as the guy who cant get with the times man.... Haha.

I just dream of experiencing life hanging out half naked, with the warmth of the ground, and "being" with other human beings. Totally and completely.

I know that lifestyle is indigenous but ... to me that's the true meaning of life. I don't understand where humans want to go. It seems like sooner or later (if we survive) we'll spread out and colonize our solar system.

But I feel like in doing so we're leaving behind the beauty of being human, being innocent, humble, and just living the life here. I feel it is much wiser and happier to accept the mystery of the universe and not to keep chasing the next thing.

As you can see I have a problem with modern society and how we keep going like a rocket ship. Id like to see us understand and solve our problems here, before we start sacrificing humanity to live in uninhabitable places in the universe forever in cold metal spaceships, like you see in sci fi movies. Where everyone is robotic and stuff.


Just a rant. I want to free myself from this place.
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12/19/2015 06:57 AM
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Re: Whats scary bout social media/messaging technology
how yall feel bout it
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12/19/2015 06:59 AM
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Doesnt take much to look around at a group of kids and see they all have their heads facing down, devolving in a sense but at the same if it can be balanced, they'll grow faster.

Slippery slope.
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"Butterfingers"
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12/19/2015 07:01 AM
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Im probably just going to end up as the guy who cant get with the times man.... Haha.

I just dream of experiencing life hanging out half naked, with the warmth of the ground, and "being" with other human beings. Totally and completely.

I know that lifestyle is indigenous but ... to me that's the true meaning of life. I don't understand where humans want to go. It seems like sooner or later (if we survive) we'll spread out and colonize our solar system.

But I feel like in doing so we're leaving behind the beauty of being human, being innocent, humble, and just living the life here. I feel it is much wiser and happier to accept the mystery of the universe and not to keep chasing the next thing.


As you can see I have a problem with modern society and how we keep going like a rocket ship. Id like to see us understand and solve our problems here, before we start sacrificing humanity to live in uninhabitable places in the universe forever in cold metal spaceships, like you see in sci fi movies. Where everyone is robotic and stuff.


Just a rant. I want to free myself from this place.
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That's just being a f#ckin' child.

Time to put on your 'big boy' boots, mate.

billclinton1
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12/19/2015 07:12 AM
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Re: Whats scary bout social media/messaging technology
Humans have existed for 4 seconds proportionate to the length of the existence of the universe. We are children. Brather.





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