Miss USA dead

[Vmass]

It's going to take at least a decade or perhaps longer for this to play itself out. There's already been overwhelming evidence presented as to how social media (in it's current form) is impacting us yet we continue to sit back, assign blame to others and wait for someone else to "Do something about it" At some point the people (probably a younger generation) will revolt against the status quo and the tide will turn back to real live in-person human interaction. Until then there's going to be a lot of pain and suffering to endure, I just hope to live long enough to hear the term "OK millennial!" entering common conversations!

Not sure I agree that the tide will turn back to in person interaction. We are steadily going in the opposite direction:

1) In-home shopping

2) Home schooling

3) Work from home

It's getting really bad........

I think we need to better at identifying issues that are right in front of us....learn to deal, I guess.

[Rob S.]

It's going to take at least a decade or perhaps longer for this to play itself out. There's already been overwhelming evidence presented as to how social media (in it's current form) is impacting us yet we continue to sit back, assign blame to others and wait for someone else to "Do something about it" At some point the people (probably a younger generation) will revolt against the status quo and the tide will turn back to real live in-person human interaction. Until then there's going to be a lot of pain and suffering to endure, I just hope to live long enough to hear the term "OK millennial!" entering common conversations!

Love your optimism, LAB; give you steep odds that don't work out, though (that's legal now ).

There is a 24/7 free hotline that people struggling with mental health can call. It’s also there to support loved ones who are concerned. The number is 1-800-273-TALK.

Good on you, Trent.

Oh, seen the tiny little automatics with 100 shot capacity? Only 75 of them in a car. Everybody's welcome in New York!

And another young woman just died under similar circumstances as Miss USA.

[Rob S.]

Re that social media stuff, I just heard the term "rage farming". Any day I learn new words is a good day.

[LAB3]

Let's let our recent history be a guide here. The "Greatest generation" made it through The Great Depression and WWII, millennials had Iraq and the economic collapse of 2008 to form their view of the world. They grew up in a general state of hopelessness for the future, combine that with an ever pervasive culture of conformity being built in the name of diversity and their kids are going to end up seeing a world that we won't be much different than the one boomers saw. Whatever it is we call this new generation (those who have most recently been born) they will see the emptiness this has brought to the lives of their parents and will grow to resent it. How this plays itself out still remains to be seen but my best guess is they'll be looking for something more REAL than the emptiness presented to them by The Metaverse.

[1948man]

Social media has more than just the mental health issues of our youth to answer for.....

https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224

[Rob S.]

...this new generation (those who have most recently been born) they will see the emptiness this has brought to the lives of their parents and will grow to resent it.

Just like us!

But I'm an optimist. I think Detective ('retired') Bernstein said it best: "Every day above ground is a good day."

[LAB3]

Just like us!

Let's hope they leave recreational drug use out of the mix this time, the message might have a better chance at living beyond the buzz wearing off.

[Rob S.]

Let's hope they leave recreational drug use out of the mix this time, the message might have a better chance at living beyond the buzz wearing off.

Let's hope, yes, but...do you honestly think they will? Fentanyl? Feh! Carfentanyl! Parafentanyl! Fural Fentanyl!

Chef of the future! ("Can it core a apple?" "Oh, it can core a apple!")

Then there's always booze...

[RichDesmond]

Will censorship of social media cure issues or just hide them?

Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

Or, more to the point, will you ever tire of posing false choices?

[GS1150Pilot]

Not sure I agree that the tide will turn back to in person interaction. We are steadily going in the opposite direction:

1) In-home shopping

2) Home schooling

3) Work from home

It's getting really bad........

I think we need to better at identifying issues that are right in front of us....learn to deal, I guess.

1) Jeff Bezos needs another rocket trip.

2) Trumpers love it (for obvious reasons).

3) For some; Many are doing a mix or are back in the office (or, for those who understand education, back in the classroom).

LAB is correct on this.

[Rob S.]

Not sure I agree that the tide will turn back to in person interaction. We are steadily going in the opposite direction:

1) In-home shopping

2) Home schooling

3) Work from home

It's getting really bad........

I think we need to better at identifying issues that are right in front of us....learn to deal, I guess.

1) Jeff Bezos needs another rocket trip.

2) Trumpers love it (for obvious reasons).

3) For some; Many are doing a mix or are back in the office (or, for those who understand education, back in the classroom).

LAB is correct on this.

I've been trying to understand your last post, 1150Pilot, so correct me where I'm wrong.

1) Bezos needs another rocket trip, which can't be done in home. Is that what you meant?

2) Trumpers love what? Face to face, because Jan. 6 (or any rally) can't be done at home? Something like that?

3) Practically all kids prefer, and need, in person education, and many adults who don't need to go back to the office are choosing to do so.

If I'm following correctly, you believe the pendulum is swinging, or will swing back from this online brink for the above reasons?

Of course,

1) The money for that rocket came from online activity.

2) The organizing power for rallies, target shooting, whatever, comes from online activity.

And number 3, if I understood you correctly, I agree with.

How'd I do?

[GS1150Pilot]

Rob, you quoted VMass before me. I responded to his post, which was, ultimately a sort of soft defense of social media as an inevitability.

1. Amazon caters to people who don't want to go out of their homes and who don't want to support local business.
2. The Trump right-especially the religious right-loves homeschooling; that way, they can omit inconvenient truths and create alternate narratives.
3. 'Nuf said.

[Vmass]

1) Jeff Bezos needs another rocket trip.

2) Trumpers love it (for obvious reasons).

3) For some; Many are doing a mix or are back in the office (or, for those who understand education, back in the classroom).

LAB is correct on this.

LAB has a valid opinion on this and I understand you agree with his opinion. With that said, we will not know if he is correct for many, many years.

My # 2 was not clear, by " Home Schooling " I was referencing the latest trend of remote learning due to Covid. Just like the work from home trend, I will not be surprised to see some permanent changes to due to what we have learned over the past 3 years.

[Lorenzo]

It's going to take at least a decade or perhaps longer for this to play itself out. [snip] At some point the people (probably a younger generation) will revolt against the status quo and the tide will turn back to real live in-person human interaction.

I envisage it this way, next level of post-social social interaction will take place as an holographic representation of oneself, conveyed to the interlocutor, as far away as you can think of.

The future is going to be Astounding...

Robbie

[LAB3]

I envisage it this way, next level of post-social social interaction will take place as an holographic representation of oneself, conveyed to the interlocutor, as far away as you can think of.

The future is going to be Astounding...

Robbie

That's the way "The Metaverse" will play itself out and the very thing people will be rebelling against.