Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.
(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)
I think that advertising is much more harmful than commonly thought of
Also it goes hand in hand with disinformation.
Btw, Trump is weirdly quiet about fake-news now that the techbros have sucked up to him?
The irony is that user-created content contains just as much disinformation whether it’s on corporate social media or the good kind.
I have my own unproved theory that the increase in problems with focus and attention spam of children are not from screens, tik tok, or infinite scroll. They are from advertisements, a format deliberately crafted to be short, intense and to mess with your brain so you buy.
Advertisements in media have been growing over the years and becoming more hypnotic and intense also.
I’m pretty good at blocking out a lot of advertisements, as in never load/watch content without them, but still feel like my attention span has been zapped since I was younger.
To me it definitely feels like phones in general are the big issue. Something you can quickly pick up for a little dopamine hit whenever you want.
Not even sure whether that’s a typo or a pun
Maybe accidental perfection lol.
Ads and shortforms are totally attention spam that kill your attention span hahaha.
Tiktok emulates the advertising format as user-generated content.
On screens, I believe they are not a root cause, but contribute to the attention span problem. The reason is that they have limited real estate, and thus lend themselves to presenting information piecemeal. This leads to the user failing to get a big picture view, and new generations who use only phones may eventually atrophy the capability to even form a big picture. Small screens are effectively blinders for the modern brain.
Definitely. The affects of advertising sticks for generations. Nazi is basically a very successful advertising campaign for motivating traumatized Germans. The “Just Say No” campaign created an entire generation with an irrational hatred of drugs. I still remember with perfect clarity tv advertising slogans from when I was a kid. We are basically dropping atomic meme-bombs on ourselves.
You should read Propaganda by Edward Bernays.