In your opinion, what do you believe is humanities most negative influence? Please give reason for your choice.
My choice would be social media because of the lack ownership people have of their opinions and the effects it has on the people reading them. Comments are made to 'trigger' people, which has become the sport of trolling. There's really no consequence for doing that in comparison to doing it in a public, physical forum. It seems as though it's hard to feel shame when there's no one in front of you?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Adverse childhood experiences are the cause of most the issues today. People who have been utilizing their limbic system and have not engaged their neocortex in regards to issues.
Recket
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Mar 24, 2019
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Social media is certainly a double edged sword. It is both wonderful and dangerous.
To me what has had the most negative influence on humanity is that we have created a world in which we are able to fulfill our psychological based needs in shallow artificial ways. No longer do we need to strive, achieve, and develop real social bonds.
Instead we can meet our need of significance by getting likes and posting self-inflating posts. We can feel connected to others when they comment on our stuff or by the number of “friends” we have.
We feel in control online because we decide what to like or post and we can block or delete stuff we don’t like. We can toll people we don’t like and feel empowered. We can google random facts (or opinions) and make ourselves feel smarter than we really are.
All of this feeds our mental needs of significance, connection, control, consistency, entertainment, and tribe association/preservation. But we have lost the ability to meet these needs in ways that truly empower and fulfill us. (Which I contend is why things like depression, anxiety, and suicide are on the rise).
KnowThyMind
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Mar 21, 2019
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Couldn't agree more. Very good point.
I believe the younger you are the more destructive social media is. I know of a lot of 20-somethings who have given up Face Book and are a lot happier. They now have relationships with real people.
@acadian Most young people I know have simply shifted from Facebook to another form of social media.
In my opinion, the most negative influence on humanity is affluence obtained easily. It breeds a disregard for others around you, a heightened importance of self, a weakening of character, and eventually a disconnect from reality. To go along with your point, 95% of the trolls online are rich high school kids who’s mommy and daddy handed them everything, delaying or eliminating their development of the necessary social skills to relate to their peers. Put 50 kids like that in a room and they start to think everyone else is the problem. Put one developed and malevolent person into said group and you have a disastrous ideology.
StrykerWolfe
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Mar 20, 2019
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Do you think it's the easily obtainable affluence that's the issue or a lack of gratitude?
I would also contest the point that 95% of trolls are kids. I see a lot more adults than I do kids trolling, but I don't really mix in the same circles that kids do on social media.
For instance, in Australia, a news site on social media was trolled by hundreds of adults making crude remarks on a photo they posted on a female footballer, mid kick. I don't see much from kids, but again, I don't mix in their circles.
@DaleMissen I think that easily obtainable affluence produces a lack of gratitude more often than a lack of gratitude produces affluence at all.
Everyone will have a different perspective on this, based on who they run with, but in my experience it’s been primarily the former, especially the stuff that makes news for “trolling.” What is the usual adult age range of trolls you see?
@StrykerWolfe I was referring more to parents not teaching children to be grateful and they grow up without regard for others or being grateful. Because I've seen people who practice gratitude deliberately and when they've come into wealth, they don't change. Yet you hear of some people that are not grateful and do turn into selfish people.
Most people I see on social media is probably mid 20s to late 40s. I only really use Facebook though which doesn't have a good representation of younger people. So I guess I really don't see that many teenagers online
@DaleMissen I see what you’re saying there, and I agree, but I would take the issue one step further back and look at said parents who don’t teach their children to be grateful. It appears to me that those parents very often acquired their comfortable station in life easily. So we’re on to a “chicken before the egg” problem here.
Ah, I use the younger platforms such as twitter and the like, which would give us a very different perspective.
@StrykerWolfe yes I agree, chicken or egg... Do they easily gain affluence though? My experience is these kids are more often from families where both parents work to pay the mortgage trying to get ahead. That's why my wife and I chose one full time earner and the other is working around that roster. We want to raise our children right.
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