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@VeroniqueB99 suburbs are not new in the US, they've been there for decades, but this problem is new. it also exists in other regions of the world (eg: Europe where distance is not a problem). honestly i don't really see the connection between loneliness and suburbs.
and the dramatic increase everywhere coincides with the advent of the ever online lifestyle. while phones might not be the sole cause, they're surely a big part of the reason, that's undeniable.
I suffered from loneliness 30 years ago. This problem is absolutely not new.
And screens are not the cause. Screens saved my life. I had no one else to talk to.
I don't usually like to talk this harshly to people on Fedi, but in this case I feel like I have no choice, so here goes: go to hell, and take the rest of the “think of the children” crowd with you. You all aren't protecting children. You hate children and want them to suffer silently and die alone.
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I suffered from loneliness 30 years ago. This problem is absolutely not new.
And screens are not the cause. Screens saved my life. I had no one else to talk to.
I don't usually like to talk this harshly to people on Fedi, but in this case I feel like I have no choice, so here goes: go to hell, and take the rest of the “think of the children” crowd with you. You all aren't protecting children. You hate children and want them to suffer silently and die alone.
I'll add that the usual “solution” to this “new” problem is to shove surveillance cameras into everyone's home, including mine, and make it illegal to develop and use software like Linux and Fedi that protect the user's privacy.
All this at a time when privacy and anonymity are more important than ever for staying safe.
So not only is your movement a deadly threat to innocent children, it's also a deadly threat to innocent adults and families like me and mine.
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I'll add that the usual “solution” to this “new” problem is to shove surveillance cameras into everyone's home, including mine, and make it illegal to develop and use software like Linux and Fedi that protect the user's privacy.
All this at a time when privacy and anonymity are more important than ever for staying safe.
So not only is your movement a deadly threat to innocent children, it's also a deadly threat to innocent adults and families like me and mine.
Oh, and to top it off, only highly-profitable billion-dollar platforms like Facebook and X can afford age verification technology, so this would do the exact opposite of forcing everyone off Facebook and X and their notorious algorithms.
It would shut down places like this, denying everyone any alternative to Facebook and X.
That's what you're really campaigning for. A camera in every home, an algorithm judging every post, and lonely kids suffering in silence.
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@VeroniqueB99 @MsHearthWitch This is a weird one for me because I grew up in an area not that populated and there were not that many kids around to play with and none of that had anything to do with smartphones or lack of sidewalks or missing bike lanes. It had to do with few people, and definitely no people of similar age or intellectual interests. As a child.
I wish i could have communicated with similar minded children in some way.
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This post did not contain any content.@VeroniqueB99 cars really did ruin everything
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@VeroniqueB99 Cars have ruined our world and broke humanity.
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@VeroniqueB99 our society exists for one singular purpose; wealth generation.
@the_q That is the sign of a broken and hollow society. Humanity has no purpose anymore.
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@VeroniqueB99 kids are lonely, (beacuse i only consider their physical interactions with people, and discount any virtual interactions they have .. um) i know, lets isolate them from the one thing that they have to turn to in this situation, that'll fix it!
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@VeroniqueB99 if only there was a warning
"The ideal is to have an atomized society of individuals who are disengaged from one another, whose single focus is their own individual security and their own individual consumption, and who are convinced that there’s no way for them to affect the choice of options that are available." - Chomsky
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@VeroniqueB99 As soon as the children have $450,000 a year combined incomes, I promise we'll all move back into the city. Until then, I'll just go ahead and miss it for the moment.
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