Most any advancement in technology, apart from military armaments, I consider potentially useful. But for the sake of the prompt, I’d have to say social media outlets, which are considered technology– I checked with Chat GPT.
I can’t blame smartphones, because they have become indispensable in ways apart from being the carriers of social media content. But social media themselves have become omnipresent weapons in the wrong hands. They’re kryptonite to the emotionally unstable. They’ve perhaps inevitably become tools for those who want to disseminate empty-headed and hateful rhetoric. They’ve become a huge distraction and the means for people to simply boast and brag and waste peoples’ time with pictures of and stories about how great their lives and children are.
I guess this is a general criticism I have for a fair amount of what we see and use on our devices. It’s one thing to get an update on approaching weather or important events in the news, or to use GPS to find our way home. It’s something else entirely to wile away your hours in a chat room or on a text thread talking shit about someone or otherwise engaging in inane and empty conversations and activities.
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