This isn’t what worries me. People go through different stages of development, and each one sort of lays some groundwork for the next. Those that have lived their whole lives with social media will have grown up with it enough that the mistakes and stupidity of previous generations will be fairly obvious. They know they’re addicted, they’re more likely to be aware of and critical of the whole thing.
It’s the people that adopted it later, in their later teen or adult years that worry me. We grew up in a simpler world, we didn’t have the chance to look at it through that clean lens of youth when you really immerse yourself. Because of that, I think you’d find a smaller percentage of us willing to admit to feeling addicted. And actually more of us falling for disinformation on it wholesale.
This isn’t what worries me. People go through different stages of development, and each one sort of lays some groundwork for the next. Those that have lived their whole lives with social media will have grown up with it enough that the mistakes and stupidity of previous generations will be fairly obvious. They know they’re addicted, they’re more likely to be aware of and critical of the whole thing.
It’s the people that adopted it later, in their later teen or adult years that worry me. We grew up in a simpler world, we didn’t have the chance to look at it through that clean lens of youth when you really immerse yourself. Because of that, I think you’d find a smaller percentage of us willing to admit to feeling addicted. And actually more of us falling for disinformation on it wholesale.