A wise man once said:
“Fifty years from now, people will look back at the Internet the way we look at smoking today. How can all the information in the world make people stupid? Your grandkids will be shocked they let pregnant people use it. You’ll have to use it outside the nursing home, on a patio a designated distance from the building.”
How will future generations look back on the Internet?
How would staff at the nursing home look up residents medical records or order supplies? Can a pregnant woman not use the internet to schedule appointments? Can her doctors not use it to enter and check her medical records?
Even if this “wise” person clumsily used “internet” when they meant “social media,” the restrictions still don’t make sense. We limit spaces where people smoke because when you smoke I inhale it. How does this apply to someone using the SDMB?
You have a very tidy desk, don’t you?
I think what’s most scary is seeing people giving babies that can’t even speak unrestricted ipads and phones and getting them addicted before they can walk (because they’re too lazy to parent them or can’t handle them crying, or maybe im too harsh and they are ignorant of the harms).
The next generation that’s raised on ipads is going to be by my guess have even more mental problems than us (and we have way more than past generations). I don’t think they’ll kick their addiction to get that lucid moment you speak of. Mainly because unlike smoking, the internet and phones are double edged swords, it can be used to benefit or harm the user.
That’s pretty much exactly what they said about television for the last fifty years.
If this was directed at me, I have no idea what you’re asking. But my desk is reasonably clean, yes.
ETA: Not sure why this is replying to me, but the question was for @Dr_Paprika
I don’t struggle with my internet addiction. My internet addiction and I stroll along hand in hand singing la-la-la, occasionally breaking into a skip.
yes, I do want to bump this topic, I think the BS happening at the speed of stupidity on a federal level makes it all the most important to reign in my use of the internet.
one big thing I do is almost NEVER do social media on my phone, only at home on the laptop or chromebook.
same here: checklists are helping me
If you’re feeling spendy, and you really like to read on e-readers, I have to give a shout-out to the Boox Palma 2, which has slashed my screen time considerably. It’s a phone-sized e-ink reader that runs Android 13. It comes pre-installed with the Play Store so you can download any app that is available there, including whatever browser you want. There are the obvious ones - Kindle, Libby, Pocket, whatever news apps you use – but what’s really clutch for me is I can also install my productivity apps and I can open and read docs from Dropbox and Google Drive - I have done this to read and critique submissions by my writers group. It’s an all-purpose everything reader. And during my work day it has pretty much replaced my phone. My productivity has increased considerably, because I can sit down to read a chapter during a work break, which feels like a real break - and there’s no distracting notifications or anything to prevent me from going back to work after I’m done with the chapter. It’s beautiful. I use it before bed, too, and I have it programmed to turn off at 11pm so I don’t stay up too late reading.
The caveats - the UI is not intuitive, it took me a couple days to get it worked out, thanks to reddit and YouTube. And Boox is notorious for having terrible customer service and not honoring warranties. But if you can deal with those two drawbacks, and you don’t flinch at the price, it’s worth checking out.