Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Article: Why Twitter Is Insane" video.

  1. This vocast is an extraordinary and successful attempt to solve a potentially disastrous problem. Dr Peterson, you have dissected a living digital-insect that is an app called Twitter. This marvel of the one-liner can send tweets of every kind and color around the world in the press of a ghostly button on a portable phone's screen. Thanks to your professional focus into analyzing the mechanism that makes this word-sending, social-media beast, we can finally see that unqualified individuals---like you say---can send their thoughts. Funny, helpful, interesting or wicked, very disturbing sound bites that really do bite can be sent in a heartbeat to people far out of their intellectual depth. Jordan, you have really done it this time. But let me throw this bone of contention back into the pit of barking mad, digital dogs. Twitter is here to stay; its effects on the young means that many of them will suffer some sort of mental health issue later in their life. But the doggedly difficult nut to crack is how are we going to move forward as a society knowing these virtual doors into everyone's consciousness from Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and counting will be more and more open hunting grounds for sadistic sharpshooters and pathological narcissists to use to their fondest desire? These companies that are really invisible boxes of unconscious thoughts-turned-into-words and sent to thousands of people in an instant will change our human psychology forever. Jordan; that's what you're saying if I have understood you. So; what this really translates out to is that young people of today will be growing up in minefields of potentially debilitating mental disorders caused from tweets that have the ability to slowly eat away their sense of personal worth and cause depression, feelings of low self-esteem and the like. It's very worrying, but it's like pythons in the Florida everglades isn't it. These social-media phenomena are not going away so we'd better start finding ways to protect young minds.
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