• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    That is a terrible mentality that is essentially “your generation bad, my generation better”.

    People have been saying the same thing about any new technology. They said it about phones, they said it about tv, they’ll say it about literally anything. To boil down a generations problems to an app is ridiculous.

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      49 minutes ago

      Sure but after phones and TV we raised gays, disabled, and the mentally ill out of the mud, transformed nations, inspired by inclusive initiatives humanity went through 50 years of progress.

      After 20 years of social media we’ve full regressed to 1938. I think if you look around, there is some pretty obvious proof, society’s critical thinking has been intentionally dismantled by these social media algorithms and the bad actors that manipulate facts around them.

    • m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 hours ago

      I’ll tell you this for nothing, not many kids know how to knap flint any more, and there’s the truth!