Jul 3
‘Mental risk’ of Facebook teens.
Children growing up alongside the rise of social networking websites may have a “potentially dangerous” view of the world, says a leading psychiatrist.
Andrew says: You need to read this piece and realise what kind of idiots there are running around “as experts” who don’t know they are talking about.
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Actually, while they are on to something, I believe their concerns are somewhat misplaced. I sometimes used to wonder why it is that the individuals I encounter in professional practice so rarely seem to be substantially engaged in computer activities and online “identities.” Especially as the types of people who spend substantial time with those activities are so often miss-branded as “antisocial.”
The answer, I have concluded, lies in the fact that most of those computer-focused individuals do not engage in thrill-seeking or dramatic behavior in the real world to the same degree as do those without substantial computer activities to satisfy or distract those basic but often dangerous human personality drives.
However, there is a funny little side-effect. Occasionally, an online thrill-seeker is incautious or indescrete to the point where the individuals on the other end of his behavior are motivated to take real world actions against the offending individual. The online thrill-seeker then learns the relative ineffectiveness, a la Peter Sellers with the remote control switch in “Being There”, of the delete button in resolving interpersonal differences with an enraged, armed, intelligent, informed, determined, motivated human being.
Heh, heh.