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Honestly, it's probably the phones
There’s no button that says “I want to meet up—who’s nearby and free?” This isn’t technologically tricky.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Scrolling on our phones is killing us. The internet promised us, first and foremost, new ways to communicate and connect with each other. We thought we’d be getting more of each other, not less.
But it’s safe to say, now that we’re more than thirty years into the great internet experiment, that our devices didn’t bring us closer together. They drove
... See moreOur around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or ev... See more
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
Even if the content on these sites could somehow be filtered effectively to remove obviously harmful material, the addictive design of these platforms reduces the time available for face-to-face play in the real world. The reduction is so severe that we might refer to smartphones and tablets in the hands of children as experience blockers.