Nobody gonna acknowledge the general trend of sitting in your bedroom on your phone watching TikTok for 24 hours per day, severely exacerbated by no school for two years.
Yes, things are bad, in ways you are much more aware of when you're working and shopping and trying to find a place to live, and yeah, things feel more polarised and sensational since 2014, and yeah we are all much more aware now because of social media etc, but this is not the reason why young kids are depressed. They are depressed because they are getting 24/7 brain zaps.
If you need an anti-capitalist spin to get you to recognise that phone bad actually, platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube know their content is addictive, they know it is addictive to kids, and they pay people to design it to become worse and more harmful. Maybe my perspective is just wrong because I'm from the UK, where in 2011 when I was still in school, I had to sit and read in the library because my phone was shit , the screen was small, people were still using 'dumb' phones and there was no internet anywhere. A few years later we got the iPhone 6 and everyone was using Snapchat.
Seriously we didn't even get an official Reddit app until 2015. Things are different now. Now we have TikTok. When I was younger, if you even owned a phone below the age of 13, people thought you were weird. Now young kids sit in front of iPads all day with unfettered internet access. It really isn't hard to believe that these new habits are fucking everyone up.
When they originally launched the Apple Watch way back when, even then they had to market it as something that could get you to look at your phone less, and that appealed to people, because we already knew. We are all aware we suffer varying degrees of internet addiction. Fucking 'maybe people are just more aware of depression now, maybe it was always like this'. Jesus christ get your shit together people, this generation is gonna get dementia by the time we are in our 50s.
Technology and the dissolution of the social realm have long been mutually reinforcing. I think it's a mistake to let the buck stop at technology itself, no coincidence that atomization is beneficial to late capitalism.
Nobody gonna acknowledge the general trend of sitting in your bedroom on your phone watching TikTok for 24 hours per day, severely exacerbated by no school for two years.
Yes, things are bad, in ways you are much more aware of when you're working and shopping and trying to find a place to live, and yeah, things feel more polarised and sensational since 2014, and yeah we are all much more aware now because of social media etc, but this is not the reason why young kids are depressed. They are depressed because they are getting 24/7 brain zaps.
If you need an anti-capitalist spin to get you to recognise that phone bad actually, platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube know their content is addictive, they know it is addictive to kids, and they pay people to design it to become worse and more harmful. Maybe my perspective is just wrong because I'm from the UK, where in 2011 when I was still in school, I had to sit and read in the library because my phone was shit , the screen was small, people were still using 'dumb' phones and there was no internet anywhere. A few years later we got the iPhone 6 and everyone was using Snapchat.
Seriously we didn't even get an official Reddit app until 2015. Things are different now. Now we have TikTok. When I was younger, if you even owned a phone below the age of 13, people thought you were weird. Now young kids sit in front of iPads all day with unfettered internet access. It really isn't hard to believe that these new habits are fucking everyone up.
When they originally launched the Apple Watch way back when, even then they had to market it as something that could get you to look at your phone less, and that appealed to people, because we already knew. We are all aware we suffer varying degrees of internet addiction. Fucking 'maybe people are just more aware of depression now, maybe it was always like this'. Jesus christ get your shit together people, this generation is gonna get dementia by the time we are in our 50s.
Technology and the dissolution of the social realm have long been mutually reinforcing. I think it's a mistake to let the buck stop at technology itself, no coincidence that atomization is beneficial to late capitalism.