She probably never heard of us.She forgot The Boneyard.
Social media (to which I selfishly exclude the BY), is a masturbatory addiction. Worse, it is saying and doing the same insipid, mundane things over and over to the same people, tautalogically, hoping desperately for a different result. The sign of a psychotic culture.Social media are the opiates of the young masses.
Poppycock. Social media allows me to watch my nieces and nephews grow up 2000 miles distant. Were it not for Facebook I wouldn't get to do this, or to keep in touch with people I'd never otherwise see. Sure, it can be abused, but to pretend that using it constitutes an "addiction" is as ridiculous as claiming that using email makes me addicted to writing. The fact that you posted that thought on an online message board makes it even more ludicrous.Social media (to which I selfishly exclude the BY), is a masturbatory addiction. Worse, it is saying and doing the same insipid, mundane things over and over tautalogically, hoping desperately for a different result. The sign of a psychotic culture.
In my opinion, it's a matter of degree.Poppycock. Social media allows me to watch my nieces and nephews grow up 2000 miles distant. Were it not for Facebook I wouldn't get to do this, or to keep in touch with people I'd never otherwise see. Sure, it can be abused, but to pretend that using it constitutes an "addiction" is as ridiculous as claiming that using email makes me addicted to writing. The fact that you posted that thought on an online message board makes it even more ludicrous.
I should have said "becomes a masturbatory addiction". Nevertheless, your occasional usage could never be defined as an addiction. Aside from necessary business use, the idea of texting 200x a day, making hundreds of calls to the same people daily, taking hundreds of photos, checking and updating your Facebook account 5,10x a day IS a masturbatory addiction. One can use emails as a way to convey information. Emailing the same people 200x daily is an addiction.Poppycock. Social media allows me to watch my nieces and nephews grow up 2000 miles distant. Were it not for Facebook I wouldn't get to do this, or to keep in touch with people I'd never otherwise see. Sure, it can be abused, but to pretend that using it constitutes an "addiction" is as ridiculous as claiming that using email makes me addicted to writing. The fact that you posted that thought on an online message board makes it even more ludicrous.
Nonsense. Social Media is a tool just like a machete. In the hands of a farmer a machete can be used to help feed you, in the hands of a serial killer it could be used to kill. With regards to a masturbatory addiction it can help you with that too- I meant the machete not social media.Social media (to which I selfishly exclude the BY), is a masturbatory addiction. Worse, it is saying and doing the same insipid, mundane things over and over to the same people, tautalogically, hoping desperately for a different result. The sign of a psychotic culture.
TMII should have said "becomes a masturbatory addiction"...
Everything and anything can be used as a tool. When anything is overused to the point of non-sequitur it is an addiction. This particular addiction, which affects a large amount of the Western world's population is troubling. Certainly a machete is a tool, but when it's used not just as a necessary, occasional or emergency tool but carried around to pick your teeth, shine your shoes, scratch your back, and your main source of amusement it becomes a masturbatory addiction. You think not?Nonsense. Social Media is a tool just like a machete. In the hands of a farmer a machete can be used to help feed you, in the hands of a serial killer it could be used to kill. With regards to a masturbatory addiction it can help you with that too- I meant the machete not social media.
I think not!Everything and anything can be used as a tool. When anything is overused to the point of non-sequitur it is an addiction. This particular addiction, which affects a large amount of the Western world's population is troubling. Certainly a machete is a tool, but when it's used not just as a necessary, occasional or emergency tool but carried around to pick your teeth, shine your shoes, scratch your back, and your main source of amusement it becomes a masturbatory addiction. You think not?
If not, then try taking the cell phone away from one of these abusers and watch their reaction. Then watch their reaction when you return it.I think not!
Something I've been crusading about for some years. I tell those entering college that the jobs in the future will be in the health field. Specifically as you've said osteopaths, chiropractors but also audiologists, ophthalmologists, psychologists, and occupational/physical therapists. It's not an accident that this generation is the first to have shorter lives than the one previous. It's also not an accident that this "social media" generation's literacy levels, social skills and attention spans are vanishingly low. The more we talk the less literate and the less social we have become.Social media abused is the new opiate of the masses, not to mention a boon to the osteopaths and chiropractors of the world.
No attack, simply a question as to why you constantly compare someone's social media addiction to masturbation. I have provided a link to well over 100 known addictions of which it is one but I still find it difficult to understand your connection. http://www.addictionz.com/types-of-addictions/Everything and anything can be used as a tool. When anything is overused to the point of non-sequitur it is an addiction. This particular addiction, which affects a large amount of the Western world's population is troubling. Certainly a machete is a tool, but when it's used not just as a necessary, occasional or emergency tool but carried around to pick your teeth, shine your shoes, scratch your back, and your main source of amusement it becomes a masturbatory addiction. You think not?
The problem is, some businesses demand using a lot of the social media. It's basically free or inexpensive advertising, reaching people who don't read newspapers or even watch much TV. Some of these things are totally useless and can be worse than that for younger people.Social media (to which I selfishly exclude the BY), is a masturbatory addiction. Worse, it is saying and doing the same insipid, mundane things over and over to the same people, tautalogically, hoping desperately for a different result. The sign of a psychotic culture.