Philosophy PHIL 1320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Insomnia
15 Nov 2017
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How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | >most social media sites prefer to fill people"s feeds with things likely to outrage them, because it gives them more attention, which in turn makes more money for them. >this might actually be killing us as rage leads to heart disease/ higher risks of having a heart attack. > our biggest competitors is facebook youtube and sleep . Social media is stunting our ability to socialize. >we have replaces social media with old fashion face to face interactions. >it has made high school students statistically more lonely. >insomnia has also increased alongside depression and loneliness because of social media and the schools are structured post bush era. >parents are not helping, using apps and technology to track where their children are at all times, further isolating them (child not parents) >parents tend to give an upset child a screen, of some sort, to sedate them.
