I read a book years ago called "How to survive modern technology" by Dr. Charles T McGree. It's not so much a tech book as a book describing some of the advancements we have made over the years in life and how it has affected our general health. Think food processing, automobiles, lifestyle etc. It was published in the 70's so its not really a computer based book.
Long story short I am one of the few younger people (35) who doesn't have social media but we are really starting to see a lot of the negative health affects of this.
There is an explosion of depression, anxiety, OCD, lack of concentration, FOMO, fighting online and a whole host of other things going on these days.
I just don't think people realize to the extent that life has really changed with a lot of this stuff, its scary and its getting worse. The level of fakeness and the extent that people are going to do things for their online profile and presence is baffling and completely foreign to other generations before us.
People spending an insane amount of time trying to get the perfect shot for their instagram, moving an item here, changing an angle there, changing lighting and taking how many pictures? All this so that they can post a picture of........their breakfast consisting of some coffee and a breakfast sandwich as if they are unique in that regard.
It's even gotten to the point where porn has been completely changed but people's comfort level online and wanting to be famous. People sometimes forget that porn production was literally professionals with full sets, directors, production crews and big name stars. Stars that were in a lot of ways kept in the dark from mainstream society. Very very few people were interested in having a career in porn.
Now? Porn sites are literally jam packed with people filming themselves having sex all over the place. Doesn't matter, young, old, ugly, beautiful. How comfortable would our parents, grandparents and other generations be at this ? The funny thing is that people like Paris Hilton and others became famous with their leaked sex tapes where only a short time later, the amount of people filming and posting is wild.
I am not judging anybody at all but I do think there is a normalization of specific behaviors in a very short period of time that isn't healthy. We can't continue to go down this exponential growth and changes without questioning things.
These devices and this technology is really affecting everybody in ways they don't even know!
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