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Smartphones are absolutely a huge contribution to the mental wellbeing of people today. It’s pretty fucked up, tbh, that anybody anywhere can choose to interrupt your day on their whimsy
Just because someone calls/texts doesn’t mean you have to answer. Adjust your alerts for your comfort, not others.
Definitely I identified with this meme not because I think having a phone on your person at all times is a boon to my mental health, but because I identify with the idea that’s it’s relative detriment is much lower than other societal woes.
True. But not what people are depressed about. People want to be able to won a home, have kids, go on vacation, and retire at some point. The way things are going right now that’s not looking likely. Smartphones may not help but they aren’t the cause either.
Rest assured the Earth will be just fine. It isn’t dying by any stretch of the word.
It’s changing. Changing in a way that isn’t conducive to human life.
We earned this. It’s time to take our medicine. We either change, today, or we die. It’s that simple.
you got me in the first half. although, at this rate, the earth may turn unsuitable for any life whatsoever. or at least any microbiological life.
I don’t think we, humans, will survive long enough to do real, long lasting “damage” to this world. We simply don’t have that power.
In truth, we are pissants on the ass of a titan. A nuisance but nothing more.
Once momma shrugs her shoulders we are done.
It depends on what you mean by “damage”. Humans have made a lot of other species go extinct. But damage to the planet itself? Hell no. Even if we did want to blow up the planet, I don’t think that we could.
What I mean is that Earth will recover. New life will arise and thrive and very likely something else will get a chance at dominance. Or nothing will. There are no guarantees that what sparked human development will ever happen again. However, life, will go on. It’ll just go on without us.
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Adulthood was going to happen with or without phones and internet. The only difference with phones and internet is you now have access to more than just the regional opinions and limited sources of curated news.
But to your point, without extended awareness that phones and internet give you, the ignorance that you are surrounded by absolutely horrible scumbags would be blissful.
However, flip side, you would likely never know your pastor rapes children and your dinner guests are Nazis. Not sure that is really bliss.
Meanwhile their constantly watching conspiracy videos on their phones
Also them: “Don’t trust everything you see on the internet”
Quite sure that our planet has potential to recover once we humans are gone for good !
Sure, but like, you know what we mean.
I know what you mean , my mom yells about my phone all the time!
To be entirely fair, those things wouldn’t be impacting anyone’s health if the news never reached them (through their iphones). Both points are technically true. My ass completely missed all those civil wars when I was growing up because I was playing neopets.
Pretty sure the fubar’d economy would be plenty apparent without the iPhone.
Last I checked the iPhone didn’t exist in 1929 when the economy collapsed and sent huge swaths of the population into poverty. It still had an impact even without a single iPhone to tell people the market crashed.
