Have to be a little patient w the buffering but worth it. Interesting mirror..
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I've read that children around the age of 12-14 are getting counseling on how to interact face to face with people because they've lived in a world of texting their whole lives. Our wired world is creating profound dysfunction in the minds and hearts of the people:


http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/08/is-the-internet-making-us-crazy-what-the-new-research-says.html

Tribes on a 360 controller. Theres your problem bro.

Good video. Couldn't tell if the last part was ending on an upnote or not

>> ^shinyblurry:
I've read that children around the age of 12-14 are getting counseling on how to interact face to face with people because they've lived in a world of texting their whole lives. Our wired world is creating profound dysfunction in the minds and hearts of the people:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/08/is-the-internet-making-us-crazy-what-the-new-research-says.html


People have an inherent desire to feel needed or worthwhile. That desire can be managed through social interaction, being part of a group helps act as a conduit allowing the interaction to have a basis to proceed. Most group interactions have obvious positive benefits for the individuals involved, with the negative impacts being dismissed because the good supposedly outweighs the bad.

You raise a good point that face to face interaction has declined due to the impact of the internet, and it definitely helps the individuals affected if they can learn multiple ways to interact with others. Take letter writing for example, everyone loves to receive a personal letter but very few people actually take the time to put pen to paper anymore. Maybe we should also be encouraging people to write more instead of cramming what they're trying to say into a small bite-size chunk of communication.

If these modern forms of interaction are providing benefits to the individuals who utilise them then all that is required is ensuring that people are aware and well-informed of the negative consequences so they can make adjustments to their lifestyle if they see fit.

Tribes Ascend on Xbox 360, haha. Nope.

In the lunchroom where I work, we used to all talk about our weekends, families, sports, politics... anything. It would even get loud sometimes. Hell, we even had a Chess tournament once. Nowadays, you can walk into the lunchroom, and it is absolutely quiet. Five people can be sitting at the same table and they are all looking down at their fucking phones. It's sad. Questions receive nothing more than disinterested nods or shakes of the head, and attempts at conversation are met with irritation, as if you are interrupting something (yeah, I know... could be just me ). Cell phones have done more to isolate that to connect, imho.

It's not just kids of this generation. I'm in my mid-thirties. The past few women I've been involved with have been age appropriate and all have been obsessive texters. But not great conversationalists. There is a constant conversation which seems civil because of the partially asynchronous nature of texting. But then in person, I can't seem to get through more than one sentence without being interrupted about 75% of the time with any woman who is a big texter. Conversely, the best listeners have been those averse to technology (but I haven't had a gf like that in about six years).

heightened flow of information inevitably makes the species smarter.
it doesn't matter how the species initially reacts and adapts.

The internet is just part of our social evolution. This is the awkward phase.

>> ^poolcleaner:

The internet is just part of our social evolution. This is the awkward phase.


Yeah that's the way I see it.

No offense to the poster of this comment, but when I read things like:
"I've read that children around the age of 12-14 are getting counseling on how to interact face to face with people because"

I immediately flash back to the absurdity of the mid-80's, and the whole "D&D will cause your kids to do acid and kill each other and live in a fantasy world!"

I think anyone is totally valid in saying this trend is pretty stupid in many ways, but it's not the first or last one the human species will go through, and all those awkward kids who grew up on the internet will have kids of their own and wonder "why the hell doesn't he come out of the VR room all weekend? I read research that..." yadda yadda.

From my personal perspective, I wish people were more resistant to "the latest thing" or new technology, because of how much we give up for it.

@artician

No offense to the poster of this comment, but when I read things like:
"I've read that children around the age of 12-14 are getting counseling on how to interact face to face with people because"
I immediately flash back to the absurdity of the mid-80's, and the whole "D&D will cause your kids to do acid and kill each other and live in a fantasy world!"

"There was an error encountered while loading this video." or is it just Canada.

I mean, *Canada

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Nice concept but that was REALLY pretentious, for example 2 mins of credits on a 10 min film.