We're Chained to Our Phones and It's Scarier Than We Think

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hi!! i'm shaniya but i use the moniker 'shanspeare' on youtube. i'm 23, use they/them pronouns, and i love talking about everything pop culture :)
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videos mentioned in this episode:
- Canceling by Contrapoints: • Canceling | ContraPoints
- How Cancel Culture Replaces Accountability with Anger & Trauma by Jessie Gender: • The Cynical Cancel Cul...
- Social media is the perfect place for a weak, insecure, projecting, narcissist by lipgloss: • Social media is the pe...
- The Anti-Tech Movement is Back by Alice Capelle: • the anti-tech movement...
Misunderstanding dopamine: Why the language of addiction matters by Cyrus McCandless: • Misunderstanding dopam...
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sources:
Whiteclaw, “Dogpiling on Social Media: Without long term goals, it’s just empty performance.”
Dogpatch Press, dogpatch.press/2019/12/02/dog...
Wikipedia. “Extremely Online.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme...
Hawes, William. “The Rise of the Terminally Online: Digital Subjectivity and Simulation of the Social.” Medium, / the-rise-of-the-termin...
Miller, Clair Cain. “Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill.” New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/te...
Al-Heeti, Abrar. “'Chronically online': What the phrase means, and some examples.” CNet, www.cnet.com/culture/internet...
Cox, Anna. “You’re Not Woke, You’re Just Chronically Online.” Heritage Herald, heritageherald.com/2022/03/24...
Kaufer, Dan MD. “The Effects of Smart Phone Usage on the Brain.” UNC Health Talk, healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/....
Haynes, Trevor. “Dopamine, Smartphones, & You: A Battle for Your Time.” SITN, sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/20...
MacGuineas, Maya. “Capitalism’s Addiction Problem.” The Atlantic, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...
Claypoole, Theodore F. “Privacy and Social Media.” Business Law Today, 2014, pp. 1-4. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/businessl.... Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.
Lee, E. Bun. “Too Much Information: Heavy Smartphone and Facebook Utilization by African American Young Adults.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2015, pp. 44-61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24572928. Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.
Zhuo, Julie. “Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt.” The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/op...
McCandless, Cyrus H. “Misunderstanding Dopamine: Why the Language of Addiction Matters.” KZfaq, • Misunderstanding dopam...

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@lizflores9024 Жыл бұрын

"Reading even if your brain won't latch" I use to be an avid reader, I could finish a book in one sitting with no issue, but now I couldn't do that to save my life. My mind drifts away even when what I'm reading is interesting and I end up picking up my phone. It makes me sad and I yearn for the younger version of myself that found so much joy in books. I find significantly less joy being online, yet I can't help myself.

@imagineglasses7552 Жыл бұрын

The scariest thing about our phone addiction is that we are all aware that we're addicted, but we're not going to do anything about it.

@mOonLight12whiSpeRs Жыл бұрын

What’s really interesting is that no one ever talks about KZfaq being just as bad as all the other social medias lol. I deleted most of mine a year ago as an experiment and as a result ended up spending upwards of 6+ hours on KZfaq. The content is much longer, much more clickbait-y, just as toxic and the algorithm works like a well oiled machine to keep you clicking. And let’s not even talk about the shorts…

@lishang2653 Жыл бұрын

Y'all, I'm so proud of myself. My screen time as of now before I go to bed (

@renroser6618 Жыл бұрын

Honestly children also belong in the “not really their fault” group: they’re on the Internet so much because they aren’t given as much freedom to go outside. It’s scary that the Internet is exploiting them just because they are more dependent on their parents and want to be more independent and express themselves

@trinaq Жыл бұрын

Yes, we're mindless robots when it comes to technology. Fun Fact: The reason Charlie Brooker named his show "Black Mirror" was because when you stare at a blank TV, laptop or phone screen, it resembles a black mirror, and forces the individuals to realise just how long they've been wasting time with their technology.

@persephone_luna

it’s chronically online to think that the phrase “chronically online” is ableist. the word “chronic” has its own definition. that’s literally CRAZY.

@phosphenevision Жыл бұрын

A good example of something extremely online happened on brazillian twitter a few months ago, a girl posted a photo of about 8 tubs of a sort of fancy ice cream brand with the caption saying that she had removed her wisdom teeth and couldn't eat solid foods, so she asked her dad for ice cream and he went a bit overboard bought a bunch of a nice ice cream for her. Completely normal unproblematic thing to do, right? Not to the people that were criticizing this random woman on twitter for:

@nerd26373 Жыл бұрын

Phone addiction can lead to terrible consequences. I’m sure that a majority of us are guilty for somehow abusing technology and internet. Addiction, in general, is a very serious problem. Many people to this day still struggle to come to terms with their unhealthy or toxic routinely habits. This sure is an eye-opener. Everyday, it seems we are getting more and more detached from reality.

@ava.catherine Жыл бұрын

and the worst part is even though my phone usually makes me feel worse, i still keep picking it up like it’ll make me feel better

@william-isaacbeckes5826 Жыл бұрын

I think about this and I cry. I feel like I’m wasting my life and I hate it but I am blissfully complacent in it. Phone addiction has introduced so much conflict in my mind and it is torture.

@Loofwoof Жыл бұрын

Finally someone in this generation admits we have a serious problem. A shocking lack of people talk about this.

@tya5884 Жыл бұрын

The fact that they said having background noise when u cook while as I'm cooking 💀✋🏽I feel called out

@ellarieee Жыл бұрын

it feels like a lot of people are realizing this. Emma Chamberlain is someone that comes to mind that is super open about this. i kinda rolled my eyes at first, but after a few days of just doing my hobbies, reading, watching movies, drawing, etc., i realize being on my phone absolutely destroys my mental health. love the video!

@NeverShoutNever45454 Жыл бұрын

I feel like technology has made me “lazy”. Not even in a way I feel like I can control. I just can’t find the motivation to do things that I need to. Like I keep my house clean on the minimal level, but I haven’t deep cleaned my house for almost 2 years now and I know I need to but I just can’t bring myself to do it. I waste so much time on my phone or computer that I could have spent doing actually productive things and I feel guilty for it.

@masonkyle6318 Жыл бұрын

I kind of wish there was a "no phones" rule at parties/social gatherings. Everyone is always checking their phones and people constantly want to take pictures... ugh

@tya5884 Жыл бұрын

I'm 2 minutes in and I realize their going to call me out a significant amount of times

@sopvrx346 Жыл бұрын

The problem is also that our world is now dependant on this internet. When someone decides to take a break from social media, they miss out on all of the things they would otherwise not be. A break from Instagram usually means a break from our online friends, our favorite influencers, musicians, KZfaqr updates they don't post on KZfaq. I've noticed on my leaves from Instagram, I fill in the blanks with Pinterest, with KZfaq videos. And I have got friends, haven't I? The young persons main communication source seems to be Instagram over phone messaging apps. When I delete Instagram, I delete my friends. It isn't so easy to simply stop using these apps as they influence our real world lives that can't seem to function without the internet. When you delete your social media app, the rest of the world keeps on going without you.

@loguski755

Earlier this week I was in a restaurant alone and i overheard the staff say I was “out of it” because I was “just staring out the window” if I was looking at my phone they wouldn’t have questioned me. It’s now the societal norm to be symbiotic with a cell phone other than nature.

@astronaut2317 Жыл бұрын

Hey, I don’t agree with changing “chronically online” to “extremely online”. It’s very reminiscent of minimizing the existence of internet addiction. Chronic is in relation to persistence, recurrence, and negative impact on the subject. Illness is not intrinsically chronic and chronic is not intrinsically tied to illness. It seems minimalist, a bit reductionist in a similar way to minimizing disability to visible disability.