> Many people have throwed away their cigarette packs, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get that one last cig with a friend then do it. Others never started to smoke. Life is fine without smoking, if you feel you want to stop smoking, do it. Footage at 11.
> Many people have stopped gambling, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get whatever money's left on the table then do it. Others never started gambling. Life is fine without gambling, if you feel you want to get out of gambling, do it. Footage at 11.
I am always shockingly impressed at the lack of empathy and open-mindedness some people or group thereof are reliably able to show, here failing to recognise that this mind trick minefield can have devastating effects and act at the very least as a dramatic catalyst in loss-of-balance situations. The underlying, untold, insulting judgement is basically "damn this guy is weak/an attention seeking whore".
I found the article articulated quite well the issues he faced, his reasons (which extend beyond Facebook's carefully engineered attention seeking madness) and both of his strategy and tactics to get out of the hole he found himself in (which extend beyond Facebook and social networks). Writing about one's problems help a lot in internally processing them. Making a public statement helps in committing oneself to improvement, and help others in a similar predicament to relate and hopefully even proceed to action.
Yup and Facebook would like you to believe it's hard. Cigarette companies encouraged the "I can't quit..." Idea too. If you fail once, twice, eleven times. Try again, keep trying, quitting cigs is really worth the effort. Each failed attempt to quit cigs you learn something you can use to succeed in the future.
I don't care for Facebook, I doubt they cause you heart disease etc. Not sure how empathetic it is to those who've watched people they love die in a cancer ward to suggest a website is equivalent. But hey, make the case if you want to...
After all a couple of thousand bucks of Russian advertising on Facebook decided the election. Facebook admit it with no ulterior motive at all.
Think of it a small thing and it probably is. Maybe it will be as big as MySpace one day...
> If you fail once, twice, eleven times. Try again, keep trying, quitting cigs is really worth the effort. Each failed attempt to quit cigs you learn something you can use to succeed in the future.
Been there, done^Wdoing that. Fourth attempt in progress, each time I'm inching closer to be done with this crap for good.
> I don't care for Facebook, I doubt they cause you heart disease etc
Mind disease surely. By receiving constant stimuli and dopamine hits the mind is plasticly shaped to expect regular, immediate, worthless rewards and can't contend anymore with long term effort for bigger, worthwhile rewards, whether physical, social, intellectual or spiritual. IOW it makes you feel like shit for even trying to do anything that matters.
CBC radio had an interesting interview with Franklin Foer this past weekend. He makes that argument during the interview and presumably in his book World Without Mind.
Well there are a couple of studies that track vitals and responses of people who get their cellphones taken away. So it's not like that's an empty implication.
What about taking away peoples ability to go out with other? Looking at “cellphones” as one collective thing is foolish, it’s a platform on which all of modern life takes place- you’re causing them serious harm by taking away their phone
> Many people have stopped gambling, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get whatever money's left on the table then do it. Others never started gambling. Life is fine without gambling, if you feel you want to get out of gambling, do it. Footage at 11.
I am always shockingly impressed at the lack of empathy and open-mindedness some people or group thereof are reliably able to show, here failing to recognise that this mind trick minefield can have devastating effects and act at the very least as a dramatic catalyst in loss-of-balance situations. The underlying, untold, insulting judgement is basically "damn this guy is weak/an attention seeking whore".
I found the article articulated quite well the issues he faced, his reasons (which extend beyond Facebook's carefully engineered attention seeking madness) and both of his strategy and tactics to get out of the hole he found himself in (which extend beyond Facebook and social networks). Writing about one's problems help a lot in internally processing them. Making a public statement helps in committing oneself to improvement, and help others in a similar predicament to relate and hopefully even proceed to action.