Do you get bored by scrolling social meeja websites?
I was listening to Radical on R4 with Amill Raja on Friday morning. His guest was exploring the notion that we are becoming less intelligent because of the impact of constant scrolling social meeja sites which are full of short looping video clips. I understand and agree with the argument, that people are loosing the ability to analyse and think critically because they are too distracted by what they see on their phones.
But it got me thinking. For myself I can’t stand things like that. I get bored with websites that scroll down all the time with video clip after video clip or stupid picture of s dog in a hat. It is just me, or is it because I am autistic?
Separately..I am laying claim to a new word I. have invented… "meeja" as a more accurate description of social media as most of what I catch site of on TiikTok, Insta etc seems to be more about the person who posted it than the subject …. LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT ME.
