People spend around 40% of their time online in 2023. With Generative A.I. making more immersive products and better games, how high do you suppose it will be in 2033?
It begins to become de-humanizing when we are raised by A.I., instead of parents, peers, communities and people.
I'm afraid that within a decade the distinction between online and offline may start to disappear for the youngest generation, and that being separated from constant A.I. assistance will terrify teens.
Hi David, I don't think i ever asserted that the avg use of SM was 5 hours a day for anyone, especially for a pre-teen. I think used 5 hours when talking about a hypothetical example of a heavy user, whose friends are also heavy users. And i did mean to including thinking time and photo-taking and editing time; not just time actually on the app. I will moderate my claims and state them more clearly. I think you're also right that i need to talk more about all the other online activities that displace more time than social media. thanks for pushing me to refine my claims and state them more clearly.
Dear Jon, your comment would have fit better under my previous article (Social Media and Time Displacement), to which I link in my first sentence above.
It is in the previous article that I explored your views on social media. In particular I quoted you in full twice to illustrate what I understand as implying that most girls, even at age 12, spent 4 or more hours daily on Instagram or Facebook circa 2015.
It may of course be that I misread, but I gave readers the chance to decide on their own by giving full quotes and context. Please feel free to comment under my previous article if you think I misinterpreted your views there, or if you think you need to clarify your views there.
Not quite sure what counts as social media here. Does Substack count? Does using the phone to have an actual person to person conversation count?
Probably not. But that means we're talking specifically about Twitter, a good place to get flash mobbed if you're into that kind of thing, and Facebook, which of course does not respect your privacy.
I am struck by how problems with using Facebook and Twitter lead to Haidt recommending that smartphones be banned from schools, rather than say offering classes to students on how to make intelligent use of social media: how to avoid problems, how to handle them when they arise, and even maybe how to use Google as an effective search tool: learning how to construct searches that are more likely to find you what you want, as well as understanding some of the inborn limitations of Google, i.e. being designed to create revenue through attracting advertisers.
People spend around 40% of their time online in 2023. With Generative A.I. making more immersive products and better games, how high do you suppose it will be in 2033?
It begins to become de-humanizing when we are raised by A.I., instead of parents, peers, communities and people.
Hi Michael,
I'm afraid that within a decade the distinction between online and offline may start to disappear for the youngest generation, and that being separated from constant A.I. assistance will terrify teens.
Hi David, I don't think i ever asserted that the avg use of SM was 5 hours a day for anyone, especially for a pre-teen. I think used 5 hours when talking about a hypothetical example of a heavy user, whose friends are also heavy users. And i did mean to including thinking time and photo-taking and editing time; not just time actually on the app. I will moderate my claims and state them more clearly. I think you're also right that i need to talk more about all the other online activities that displace more time than social media. thanks for pushing me to refine my claims and state them more clearly.
I added
[Note: see also Haidt’s comment below and my reply to him.]
to the intro so that readers are alerted about your response.
Dear Jon, your comment would have fit better under my previous article (Social Media and Time Displacement), to which I link in my first sentence above.
It is in the previous article that I explored your views on social media. In particular I quoted you in full twice to illustrate what I understand as implying that most girls, even at age 12, spent 4 or more hours daily on Instagram or Facebook circa 2015.
It may of course be that I misread, but I gave readers the chance to decide on their own by giving full quotes and context. Please feel free to comment under my previous article if you think I misinterpreted your views there, or if you think you need to clarify your views there.
Not quite sure what counts as social media here. Does Substack count? Does using the phone to have an actual person to person conversation count?
Probably not. But that means we're talking specifically about Twitter, a good place to get flash mobbed if you're into that kind of thing, and Facebook, which of course does not respect your privacy.
I am struck by how problems with using Facebook and Twitter lead to Haidt recommending that smartphones be banned from schools, rather than say offering classes to students on how to make intelligent use of social media: how to avoid problems, how to handle them when they arise, and even maybe how to use Google as an effective search tool: learning how to construct searches that are more likely to find you what you want, as well as understanding some of the inborn limitations of Google, i.e. being designed to create revenue through attracting advertisers.