I was a child before the internet, but had it from being a late teen/adult. I've always looked back on my childhood and felt that life was simpler, but always presumed that was just because I was a kid with no responsibilities.
However I went to an interesting talk on stress recently which talked about how each of the interactions we have in a day places a microstress on us - we have to weigh up what it is, whether it poses a threat to us, what to do with the information, etc.
They said before the internet, these interactions would almost exclusively be with people in your immediate environment, save for say, reading the paper or watching the TV news.
However the internet has multiplied our interactions exponentially, meaning we're spending all day processing information, weighing up threats, placing microstress after microstress on us which builds up. These 'threats' can be as small as say, a bad news story, someone showing off on Facebook, an email with an unclear tone, etc.
This resonated with me massively. Thinking back to even the 1990s, there seemed to be a simplicity and degree of solitude which has gone now.
What are your thoughts?
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moutonfou · 25/05/2017 00:46
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