[mentos]

Smart phones are what made social media toxic.

The last sacred mile of our social lives has been invaded and corrupted no?

No one enjoys a concert or sunset without feeling the need to capture and share it.

Who is to blame for that?

Steve Jobs

[andrekandre]

  > Smart phones are what made social media toxic.

i dont know about that... usenet was a toxic mess alot of the time waaaay back, and facebook used on pc alot of the time is a total cesspool, same with 4chan etc etc... smartphones just made it more accessible, but it was always there...

[mentos]

I appreciate what you're saying but is the problem with fast food that people have always been hungry?

[andrekandre]

probably the problem with fastfood is that its preying on our human bias for fats and salts and doesn't provide much beyond that

we probably arent super disagreeing anyways, all im saying is its kind of like blaming uber eats for delivering lots of junk food to everyone when the problem is the junk food

in other words, probably we should think about why we allow these social media companies to prey on our human biases.

hypothetical, but would you still be against smartphones if facebook or 4chan etc didn't exist or was illegal as a business? if so, whats the reason?

[mentos]

Probably.

Pandora’s box didn’t just have social media in it.

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