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Yes I am kind of joking. The problem is, we have seen over time, books aren't evil or bad (sounds like religious nutjubbery to me there) however we have found how bad these devices are because they are constantly dinging and giving you dopamine highs. Tell me this; will a toddler be more likely addicted to a book, or a shiny flashy iPad (that can later be leveraged by corporations into an addiction to fortnight crates/loot box shit). So in that way, yes, the screens are bad. Now I use my phone often times for reading, but you know what 99% of the population is using it for ? Mindless 6 second tik tok brainrot. Its definitely not a good thing.
Yeah, like I said, it's the content that's bad. You could have a phone without any of these issues. Mine mostly doesn't, because I don't use any of these media services or social media, besides Lemmy if you count that.
Yeah. I was just saying I dont think we can compare it to things people previously freaked out about because scientific studies are showing that it actually is hurting our brains, and the development of kids brains. And you can see it in day to day; no one has patience any more. My friends wont watch a dvd of a movie they have because its too much effort to get up and put the disc in. If something isn't instantaneously gratifying they drop it like a rock.
Now of course if timmy watched 12 hours of Ren and stimpy back in the day I imagine that may have a similar negative effect. But the difference is the tv wasn't portable and attached at the hip like it is now.