At my gym, school kids come in free during summer break. I love that most of them desert their phones. In fact more older people stare at them in the gym!
I signed up for instagram about 3 weeks ago. I did it because I joined a gym and the owner is constantly videoing the training and I wanted access to anything that I am in. It’s funny, I actually do technology for a living and am very good at it but I don’t understand social media and still confused on how to use instagram.
Isn’t that where Cofeefe comes from? I saw the TV ad.
“Many fine people are at risk for Cofeefe. Symptoms include but are not limited to: Ill-advised hairstyling, horrific application of tanning makeup, rambling on about sharks and batteries, and excessive lying. Ask your doctor about treatment for Cofeefe. Five to ten in the joint is a really good way to start.
This cartoon captures with a few words what’s documented at great length (yes, facts and charts and trend lines and academic studies and all) in Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation. He says that the widespread replacement of play-based childhood by disembodied, asynchronous phone-based childhood is leading to a massive rewiring of the adolescent brain, causing them to be more fearful, socially awkward, and prone to depression, self-harm, and suicide. And it’s worse for girls than for boys. A sobering read, partially palliated by his prescription for what to do about it. Which of course we aren’t going to do, because look at all the money people are making with those phones in kids’ hands.
High brain function was limited to the wealthy until the printing press came along, and the the industrial age expanded it more. There was the same sort of opposition then, too.
One of the earliest social media forms was Usenet. It’s still around, but greatly dimished from its heyday. It is divided into various “newsgroups” or discussion forums with various broad topics. It is also largely unmoderated. I enjoyed it back in the day.
Parents can teach their children about researching and verifying and common sense… unless those parents already have problems with researching and verifying and common sense…
Leroy about 1 month ago
Ooh … Hold on … I know I have witty comment … Dang, lost it.
baddawg1989 about 1 month ago
Dain bramage. :-)
Scorpio Premium Member about 1 month ago
At least the higher reasoning functions.
Ratkin Premium Member about 1 month ago
Guy in the 2nd row is on Facebook.
The dude from FL Premium Member about 1 month ago
At my gym, school kids come in free during summer break. I love that most of them desert their phones. In fact more older people stare at them in the gym!
eromlig about 1 month ago
I went to the comment section but forgot what I wanted to say.
braindead Premium Member about 1 month ago
And Fox ‘news’ and Sinclair owned AM radio.
boneroller42 about 1 month ago
This seems to be SO true.
uhohlol about 1 month ago
Try electronic advertising, that’s been the real culprit for a century.
Mediatech about 1 month ago
keenanthelibrarian about 1 month ago
Don’t tell everyone, they’ll all want to have a go .
comixbomix about 1 month ago
Not if you use your Media Oblongata…
3hourtour Premium Member about 1 month ago
…social media is just like rush hour…
Funniguy about 1 month ago
Anti-social Media is a more appropriate term for all of it.
Give it Da-BEANS! Premium Member about 1 month ago
So.. we’re on vacation, then.??
johndifool about 1 month ago
A recent study blames overuse of social media on phones and PCs for the first drop in IQ in many generations.
bigger Nate about 1 month ago
.There should’ve a representative from the Flat Head Society to offer a counter point
wongo about 1 month ago
If it’s on the internet it has to be true, right? Right?
Slowly, he turned... about 1 month ago
And it doesn’t take long and there is no charge plug.
gozirra2 Premium Member about 1 month ago
I have become…comfortably numb
PraiseofFolly about 1 month ago
The top cross-section shows media-baked brain pizza.
MS72 about 1 month ago
What’s that book with a cherry on the cover? (1st published in the 70s)
rodney about 1 month ago
I signed up for instagram about 3 weeks ago. I did it because I joined a gym and the owner is constantly videoing the training and I wanted access to anything that I am in. It’s funny, I actually do technology for a living and am very good at it but I don’t understand social media and still confused on how to use instagram.
cpiller Premium Member about 1 month ago
Truer words were never spoken!!!
FassEddie about 1 month ago
Isn’t that where Cofeefe comes from? I saw the TV ad.
“Many fine people are at risk for Cofeefe. Symptoms include but are not limited to: Ill-advised hairstyling, horrific application of tanning makeup, rambling on about sharks and batteries, and excessive lying. Ask your doctor about treatment for Cofeefe. Five to ten in the joint is a really good way to start.
phileaux about 1 month ago
Prolonged & early exposure.
David_the_CAD about 1 month ago
Never trust something that you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 1 month ago
This cartoon captures with a few words what’s documented at great length (yes, facts and charts and trend lines and academic studies and all) in Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation. He says that the widespread replacement of play-based childhood by disembodied, asynchronous phone-based childhood is leading to a massive rewiring of the adolescent brain, causing them to be more fearful, socially awkward, and prone to depression, self-harm, and suicide. And it’s worse for girls than for boys. A sobering read, partially palliated by his prescription for what to do about it. Which of course we aren’t going to do, because look at all the money people are making with those phones in kids’ hands.
HOTLOTUS1 about 1 month ago
and by social media you mean what
tuliplover about 1 month ago
… and constant use of cellphone texting. Leaving people not knowing how to have an in-person conversation.
Stupid about 1 month ago
Modern style lead crockery
ragsarooni Premium Member about 1 month ago
Why yes,yes it is‼️
pheets about 1 month ago
Too close to reality to be truly funny.
timinwsac Premium Member about 1 month ago
Political ads are worse and every four years there’s an outbreak.
ncorgbl about 1 month ago
High brain function was limited to the wealthy until the printing press came along, and the the industrial age expanded it more. There was the same sort of opposition then, too.
mindjob about 1 month ago
It’s a good thing I don’t have time for that nonsense
Godfreydaniel about 1 month ago
I know I have more free time since ThereWent Comics disabled comments on editorial cartoons…..
anomaly about 1 month ago
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
DaBump Premium Member about 1 month ago
Aw. Mr. Miller went to all that effort for low-hanging fruit.
elgrecousa Premium Member about 1 month ago
I’m afraid the idiocy started much earlier than the presence of cell phones and other media outlets.
Silence Dogood Premium Member about 1 month ago
Wrong classroom; Try Psychology and Behavioral Sciences…and Parenting 101!
mistercatworks about 1 month ago
Which I why I’m using a whiteboard for my class.
david.reichert about 1 month ago
Where are the Sober Brain functions?
raybarb44 about 1 month ago
As if they are listening……
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
I have Type 2 diabetes and I manage it well
But my singing voice will always be an off-key Hell….
Brian Premium Member about 1 month ago
One of the earliest social media forms was Usenet. It’s still around, but greatly dimished from its heyday. It is divided into various “newsgroups” or discussion forums with various broad topics. It is also largely unmoderated. I enjoyed it back in the day.
eddi-TBH about 1 month ago
It can also be short circuited by falling in love.
ferddo about 1 month ago
Parents can teach their children about researching and verifying and common sense… unless those parents already have problems with researching and verifying and common sense…
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 1 month ago
Nuff Said.
SrTechWriter about 1 month ago
We two sons used to tease out mother that “You can’t carry a tune in a basket with handles.”
She’d look at us with a sadness in her eyes. Then she shut up … forever … a suicide from depression.
I’d give anything to hear her happy voice singing once again – even if it was off key.
Daniel Strickland Premium Member about 1 month ago
Yeah, yeah….feeling lazy today, weren’t we, so here’s a cheap shot.