After I wrote last week’s blog on “Social Media Addiction,” I started to pay more attention to devices more. This included my own tech habits as well as those around me. Everywhere I looked, people were constantly on their devices.…
Category: Social Media
Social Media Addiction
Last week Meta settled a course case against it. Normally in these types of cases against social media companies, they rely on Section 230. Essentially, this is a US Federal Law that prevents social media companies being held liable for…
How Smart are Smart Glasses?
Many years ago I blogged about smart glasses. At the time they were a new invention from Google. People who wore them were refered to as “gla**holes“. Smart glasses are kind of what they sound like. Basically a pair of…
The Attention Hijack
I recently read an article about a famous children’s book author being critical of children watching screens too much. His position was that the children are reflecting the world we’ve created for them. The fix is to read to them…
Too Much of a Good Thing
I think one of the biggest benefits, and detriments, of the online world is always giving us more of what we like. The design of an algorithms is to pump content into our awareness based on our preferences and past…