I don't think we are to blame for our addiction to technology entirely. Social media platforms are addictive by design.
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I don't think we are to blame for our addiction to technology entirely. Social media platforms are addictive by design.
I feel that there is snippets of information on the web. Everyone is getting a small piece of the picture, but not necessarily getting holistic view of things. Like when you read a book on a particular topic you spend time with it. You spend countless hours going down the rabbit hole trying to fully grasp with your intellect what the book is all about. This is a very rewarding process. There is an education method that has been replaced with outcome based education. It is called Trivium method.
All knowledge starts with identifying the definitions. We gather information by gathering all the WHAT about a topic. We look at all the components of knowledge. Say you are mechanic. You would gather all the tools responsible for the repairing of car. You would understand what each tool does. This step is very important. Yet people skip this step of figuring out WHAT a thing is. They jump straight to the next step.
PROCESSING is the next step. Information needs to be processed and made sense logically. How does the tools used work with each other. What are the steps needed to perform a certain action. This step of Trivium is known as the WHY of how things work.
The third and final step is Output. This is communicating and or actually doing what you have learned from processing.
Without understanding Trivium people are just robots. They will do what their instincts tell them to do. Perhaps they are thinking what actions they are doing is creating some form of benefit. Yet what they post is a collection of what they are thinking. Their thoughts are being processed by the social media platform. How ironic my thoughts are being processed by steemit as we speak...
If people knew how to think with Trivium then they would be able to be more responsible with their time and energy.
Certainly not entirely, and I agree that social media is designed in such a way that it is very addictive, but it is important that each individual realizes the time s/he spends on social media and other platforms and how much time s/he dedicates to other types of technology and think about whether or not that is a healthy amount for them and if they think they're addicted and it affects them in a negative way, that they know to change it and limit their exposure to it.