The expert from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) warns that overexposure to screens from an early age can have a negative impact on health
      • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        14·
        5 months ago

        Maybe, though I wouldn’t be surprised if some social marketing shit-bags already have accounts on various instances.

        • Shadowq8@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Lemmy would need to become significantly popular for it to be worthwhile for them to manipulate it; they might be laying the groundwork now. However, only time will tell. If Lemmy does become more popular, hopefully people here can effectively counteract any manipulation.

      • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        It will be. We are just not sure yet how because it precisely doesn’t work like reddit or Facebook. But I am sure there are ways to manipulate here too, it may just be more elaborate.

  • Shadowq8@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    5 months ago

    My 2 cents on this.

    Stay off your phone.

    Gaming consoles offer a better experience than the low-quality entertainment on phones and tablets.

    Spending time on toxic social media is like feeding your brain junk food.

    It’s all designed to quickly exploit you.

    I’d prefer my kids use a gaming console like the Switch instead of an iPad.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      5 months ago

      Gaming consoles just mean you’ve already bought into their walled garden. They don’t need to use the same tactics the mobile games use; you’re already trapped. Hell, you’re probably already paying a monthly subscription for online play, and then there’s still nothing stopping individual game publishers from further enshittifying on top of that!

      No, what you should really be doing is gaming on PC (Linux), ideally with games bought DRM-free (e.g. from GoG) or even by only playing Free Software games. I personally compromise enough to accept Steam, but that really is at the absolute limits of acceptability (and only then because of factoring goodwill from all their work on Linux compatibility for games).

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      On a phone, I actually rarely get stuck for hours. Not only because most of my personal data has to stay off of it (it cannot have LineageOS or similar), but also because it is inconvenient af. No keyboard, small screen, everything is slow. The problem of infinitely going into rabbit holes solves itself, while on the laptop there has to be a lot more self-control - it is far more comfortable.

  • stink_pickle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    What they haven’t realized is paying for living quarters for their tests. Give a homeless person a roof for watching ads all day?

    • kambusha@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      I don’t think the homeless are a typically sought-after demographic. Maybe for loan sharks?

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Dang, that is a dystopian scenario for affordable housing. That’s some black mirror Fifteen Million Merits stuff.

    • gimpchrist @lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I think I could tolerate it for a couple months at most. The problem is that good advertising doesn’t exist very often so it’s all just fucking annoying

  • Legend@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Everything’s a tool, you can hit a nail with a hammer or crack your own head its how you use it and not the tools problem unless its specifically made for doing an evil thing like the evilinator or somethin . also being a neuroscientist doesn’t instantly make anyone right people like to spread their opinions as facts because they have some kind of authority so don’t be sheep and use your own head sometimes which most people clearly don’t do as we can see in the upvotes.