For me it already started with America's Funniest Home Videos.
I just couldn't understand why people would laugh about videos that were clearly staged. Who would film his husband standing on a ladder cleaning the gutter?
But nowadays with youtube it has been getting worse. All these so-called pranks and funny videos. I even had a discussion about it with my teenage kids. I told them not to believe everything that happens in a video. These youtubers would get far less views if nothing interesting was happening in their videos.
And with AI videos it will only get worse I think.
Are we trying to normalise loneliness?
It's way easier to be lonely since you actually don't have to interact with real life people. Which is quite difficult for a lot of (young) people nowadays because the most communication is digital nowadays.
I'm really curious how this will develop.
I'd forgotten about those. That was before social media and everyone having cameras on their phones too. Now people will actually just stand around and film accidents instead of trying to help. Yet even further loss of our humanity?
Then they have to keep escalating to keep those views up...
This is a good point. I'm glad I've always encouraged my youngest in this regard, letting her know it's not as difficult or scary as you think. I was also very quiet, but with a less digital world I was forced to learn interact. I'm glad I was and am saddened that she didn't have that push. She got there in the end, though.
New technology can be great, but also makes us dependant on it and makes us lose skills. It is a thing of all times. Like calculators and navigation... a lot of people would literally be lost without them.
And as long as they work it isn't that bad, bit you can't say that for losing the skill to communicate in real life.
We need to learn our kids to stay communicating to keep that skill.