[enilakla]

I do think that the smartphone has lead to some sort of degradation in terms of everyday social interactions, along with an increase in people consuming more clickbait and subjecting themselves to advertisements, etc.. Basically just consuming garbage.

Of course, one could argue that if you choose to not consume those things, you can harvest the benefit of having information and fluid communication at your fingertips. The reality is that in the aggregate, we likely waste more time on the things like browsing <insert_favorite_site_here>.

This could have been phrased so many different ways, and its tricky to point out what exactly is wrong with it all..but I believe soon we'll be at a sort of short/medium term high-point with this sort of behavior, and people will start embracing more natural interactions, etc..

I also think much of this has to do with economics/markets. For the past decade theres been a massive run up in capital and with low yields it's been invested in about every scheme imaginable. Large companies like Lyft lose a lot of money and investors apparently haven't had enough yet...

In 2009 this would not have worked. Next time we have a recession, it will 'slow down' a lot of investment and in that sort of market it will be hard to continuously lose money; and this is where it gets a bit vague (if it hasn't already) but I feel that society needs that slow-down, since these days there's constant hype of this new service, app, way of doing things, etc..