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The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Hirom@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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[-] anothermember@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

I get that, I live in the south of my country too, but only the US feels entitled enough to say "the south" and expect the whole world to know where they are.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

I guess it adds to the problem that it's very context specific. When you are in your country talking in your mothertongue with someone, you would probably only say "the south" to refer to the south of your country (or another by society predefined south).

And while we are on a mostly English-speaking platform inhabitated by mostly US people, I've heard US people throwing around US specific terms in a lot of different contexts/countries without checking the context they are in.

[-] anothermember@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

It's probably the same kind of culture clash that the original video talks about. I've got to admit it is something that can rile me up probably more than it rationally deserves to, if I let it (and I'm sure others too).