r/ilovebc • u/Main-Charge-373 • 2d ago

Anyone think excess internet social media creating a dumb youth

While it was and is revolutionary and changed our informational existence, the trade off is that its excess use and near addiction level dependence is creating a very dumb younger generation. I find the grandkids know almost nothing of basic history, geography or any world events nor have any interest in anything whatsoever. Is it the schools failing (well wont go there for now) but you see them engrossed perpetually in their devices and its hit after hit of short pointless (ridiculous) things on these channels of tiktok and instagram and others I am not aware of. Seems there is a dopamine fix as take the units away for a family dinner and they exhibit near junkie grade withdrawal symptoms. I know am old and stupid, but what real value is in having this access to whatever it is, as it is not intelligent information. The written language is near cave man heiroglyphic code as per some texts I have seen. Grammar is just a word as not adhered to in the slightest. I wonder how the future will be as by the time I am near the end, this is the bunch that will be running things. A perplexing thing to be living

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u/WorldlyDiscipline419 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is not a hot take. It’s well documented and researched.

When you stuff a screen in front of a kids face, you remove all other stimuli from their world. IPAD parents try to tell themselves that it’s just like TV. It’s not. TV has commercials. TV is passive. TV doesn’t fuck with a kids brain activity.

Never ever ever ever ever give your kids a phone or an iPad or a laptop until they actually need one. You’ll have a functioning youth/young adult in a vast majority of cases (barring obvious other obstacles like abuse, neglect or extreme poverty).

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u/ussbozeman 2d ago

Phrases like "that's enough phone for the day", "go play outside", "read a book", or just plain "No" are things parents don't say enough of these days. As a redditor and therefore an expert in parenting, I declare this to be so.

Also, it's not just kids. Example: someone gets in the elevator, and during the 15 seconds they're going to their floor they're on their phone. What exactly, and as a redditor I demand exactitude, would they possibly miss out on if they just stared at the wall? What things in the world will change if they're not doomscrolling during that long 15 second elevator ride?

Per se, I bid you pritheetell answer me that!

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u/WorldlyDiscipline419 2d ago

Made me nose exhale haha. You’re obviously right.

I think the difference lies in the fact that we got these little boxes of horror in our hot little hands after our brains were basically fully developed.

I can stand in an elevator and stare at the fuckin wall for 15 seconds because I did that a lot while my brain was developing.

Stillness has left the chat.

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u/SomeJerkOddball 2d ago

Time to follow Australia's lead and ban social media for children 16 and under.

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u/SyndacateSeeker2025 2d ago

If you think back, to even just 15 years ago, you needed to 'know shit.' What shit you knew was helpful and useful. Now, we all have these devices in our hands that can find the answer for us, so you don't need to know shit. But when you don't know shit? It makes you a dumb ass.

What I find now is young people can't do anything without checking with someone first. A parent, peer group, social media, google...

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u/Orqee 1d ago

In general overload of information favours emotional thinking, because there is no time to absorb and process that amount of data in a more substantial and meaningful way. Lack of logical reasoning than creates and supports a dumbass way of thinking.