ye exactly, the article never stated that it the lawsuit is linked to Trump's twitter ban but the fact that the "now-banned" Trump twitter account has been has been freed from lawsuit which actually will define how accounts of political office holders will be interacted with and treated by law
Depends on the wine... if it’s white wine, it needs to be refrigerated a d it can last for up to 3 weeks, but red wine can last for a long as possible, it doesn’t need refrigeration.... champagne and sparkling wine can’t last a week when opened due to the carbon which won’t be present after some days anymore
For me, any child below 15 years has no business with social media...social media is highly distractive, even to adult ...the shud be a regulation restricting children from social media
I wouldn't have a problem with social media per se for my kids. It's the sheer size of the population that concerns me.
In most "normal" situations, parents can identify their children's contacts quickly and they can observe the black sheep closely and in the worst case try to prevent any further contact.
In social media, the weirdest and worst people are just a click away and you won't even notice it. Right now, there probably is a new trend or group out there that is extremely dangerous, or outright criminal and I don't even recognize it.
> I wouldn't have a problem with social media per se for my kids.
The thing is that the people/kids dying because of dumb challenges or the occasional illegal/gore/murder videos &c... aren't even the problem
These things are built to steal your attention and use every trick in the book to make you a brainless scroll monkey. There is a reason why not a single SV executive will let their kids anywhere close to social medias. These things destroy people's brains, and especially the brains of kids which are still developing and are extremely malleable to this type of conditioning. tiktok/snapchat/instragram &co bring absolutely nothing good to a kid's life, they're pure distraction devices
> parents can identify their children's contacts quickly and they can observe the black sheep closely and in the worst case try to prevent any further contact
Unless you monitor your kids 24/7: no, and again, these tools, even when used "safely" are still engineered to artificially trigger and reinforce the most basic reward pathways of your brain and this won't bring anything good to your kid's life
You can very well make the analogy with weed or alcohol. What might be fine for an healthy adult (able to set his own boundaries and conscious of the potential risks) would destroy a 10 years old kid very quickly
Ok, so you aren’t fine with social media, given that this isn’t something you can control. It sounds like “I’m fine with it, just not any of it’s bad sides.”
The issue is that you said what bothers you about social media is "the sheer size of the population", but I would say the size of the population is what makes it social media. It's akin to saying I like cars except for the fact they move faster than a person. You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable.
> You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable.
It would basically be OG Facebook, which was a pivotal point in the development of social media. Facebook pivoted to focus on massive populations where everyone interacted with everyone, instead of the small subset of people you actually know.
Perhaps I'm alone in this experience, but social media in 2021 is vastly different in both form and function to social media in 2011. I'm not making a value judgement on which is better, but the two things barely resemble each other to me.
This might protect children for a while but sooner or later they will become addicted to it.
We will have to modify/add this to our educational system, there is no other way around it or parents will have to teach children this themselves (which is problematic since adults themselves are also addicated so we are missing a huge part of the puzzle of how the mind truly works).
A lof of adults think they are not addicted to twitter/facebook/hackernews but they somehow magicaly find themselves browing hackernews and facebook "suddenly and for no reason at all".
This seems to be one of the few books that actually works in practice: it is about porn addiction but it seems to be applicable to social media addication also.
