Comment by lm28469
2 months ago
Yes, and they read books before radio was a thing, what's your point ?
Books are exactly the same as tiktok brainrot ? That's obviously not true
That tiktok is "active" hence it's objectively better than TV ? Why ? And through what mechanism ?
What is the relation between all that and "now that we ourselves have become a resource to extract" in relation to smartphone use and changing socialising habits? This is a very shallow and short-term view. People like scapegoats and shallow reasoning.
Ubiquitous smartphones are a fundamental shift irrespective of the big bad capitalists who are doing nothing new.
Perhaps we could add parenting. If parents let their children hold on to their smartphones 24/7 it's no-one else's fault. In general, at least in my case and my friends', TV was highly "regulated" at home.