Tldr:
-Problem were here before, but not on such a massive scale
-No safe place
-Parents have way less influence on their children
-Younger people are influenced way more by external factors, than more mature people
How can you be so sure, that we will never see anything as bad / risky as tabacco?
Sure, we do know a lot about the physical consequences to our body, but there is so much more to it than just that.
Getting cancer, any other illness or damage to our body sucks, however these are consequences we do know exist.
Do you consider, that you probably will hang out with different kind of people and as a consequent develop differently?
Do you consider the addiction, not beeing able to concentrate for a long time without a breake, because you are longing for the next cigarette?
Do u consider ...
This list could go on and on and each of these aspects gets worse the younger you are.
Of course I can't tell if these example truely have a big negativ effect on you, but I am sure, that these and other factors shape you as a person.
Now we look at social media, which tend to have not that many physical consequences for your body. However there are so many more psychological factors shaping your brain, behavior and habits.
Addiction, false role model, always having social pressure just to name a few.
You are rigth, these factors did exist before, but in a much smaller scale. Furthermore a parent can only raise and help his children grow and develop as much, as they are spending time together.
Nowadays kids spend a lot of time on the internet / social media, which it used to spend with other children playing and while playing with other kids, learning how to behave in a society.
Of course we didn't always do as our parent told us, but we never even come close to the f*cked up stuff we see on the internet daily.
We never had a million eyes watching every step and be judged by them. Home was a safe place.
I spent quit a lot of time on this comment, way too much to be honest, but what I am trying to say is:
-These 'normal' factors are on a massive scale and the impact they have, direct or indirect, shouldn't be taken lightly
-There is no safe place anymore. If you are not on social media, you are 'different' / 'weird'
-Parents have way less influence on the development of their children
Thanks for the tip, however I am more interested to learn more about different culture and people, therefore "developing" myself.
I am especially interested in the intersection of Economic and IT, because I am pretty good with people, but also like the logic and flow of information. Logically I think Distributed Systems and Infrastructure is my field of CS. Therefore I think it is a better time investment for me to study abroad, gain a new perspective on different topics, while expanding my knowledge on distributed systems/networks by visiting a University, which teaches the theory, and exploring different Homelabs or other projects on HN for the "real life" use.
Wow, thanks for the thorough answer and showing me a way of studying in the US, despite my financial situation. Definitely going to look into these Options and doing more research on my owm.
Hey, i too am a german and can confirm, that ur comment about our politic view is completly wrong. Even former kanzlerin Angela Merkel said, that we need to stoo putin now. So please stop activly missinforming people
How can you be so sure, that we will never see anything as bad / risky as tabacco? Sure, we do know a lot about the physical consequences to our body, but there is so much more to it than just that. Getting cancer, any other illness or damage to our body sucks, however these are consequences we do know exist. Do you consider, that you probably will hang out with different kind of people and as a consequent develop differently? Do you consider the addiction, not beeing able to concentrate for a long time without a breake, because you are longing for the next cigarette? Do u consider ...
This list could go on and on and each of these aspects gets worse the younger you are. Of course I can't tell if these example truely have a big negativ effect on you, but I am sure, that these and other factors shape you as a person.
Now we look at social media, which tend to have not that many physical consequences for your body. However there are so many more psychological factors shaping your brain, behavior and habits. Addiction, false role model, always having social pressure just to name a few. You are rigth, these factors did exist before, but in a much smaller scale. Furthermore a parent can only raise and help his children grow and develop as much, as they are spending time together. Nowadays kids spend a lot of time on the internet / social media, which it used to spend with other children playing and while playing with other kids, learning how to behave in a society. Of course we didn't always do as our parent told us, but we never even come close to the f*cked up stuff we see on the internet daily. We never had a million eyes watching every step and be judged by them. Home was a safe place.
I spent quit a lot of time on this comment, way too much to be honest, but what I am trying to say is:
-These 'normal' factors are on a massive scale and the impact they have, direct or indirect, shouldn't be taken lightly -There is no safe place anymore. If you are not on social media, you are 'different' / 'weird' -Parents have way less influence on the development of their children