I mean sort of, but it’s a parenting issue in the way that smoking was for our grandparents, but in some ways, much worse.
With smoking back in the day, our grandparents were addicted to it, and inadvertently modelled that behaviour for our parents (or for other people’s kids who thought they looked cool), leading way more of our parents generation to smoke, even though they started growing up being aware of the risks and the impact it was having on their parents.
Social media is operating like that, but one difference is that smoking mostly cost people money… It did also cost them time, but most of that time was paid in years of their lives at the end. Social media is costing everyone their time constantly, day in - day out, and sapping their attention, focus, and willpower… Leaving social media addicted parents even less bandwidth to try and make sure their kids grow up different then smoking parents.
I mean sort of, but it’s a parenting issue in the way that smoking was for our grandparents, but in some ways, much worse.
With smoking back in the day, our grandparents were addicted to it, and inadvertently modelled that behaviour for our parents (or for other people’s kids who thought they looked cool), leading way more of our parents generation to smoke, even though they started growing up being aware of the risks and the impact it was having on their parents.
Social media is operating like that, but one difference is that smoking mostly cost people money… It did also cost them time, but most of that time was paid in years of their lives at the end. Social media is costing everyone their time constantly, day in - day out, and sapping their attention, focus, and willpower… Leaving social media addicted parents even less bandwidth to try and make sure their kids grow up different then smoking parents.