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[SpAmRaY]

This might have went viral and I missed it, I'm pretty good at being clueless to whats hip, but nonetheless I thought it a worthwhile watch.

[user 18]

Being a teen, I feel I should comment on this.

I can appreciate the spoken-word poem on its own merits. Some parts of the message are definitely necessary -- I agree we shouldn't spend our entire lives glued to screens, but in my experience that's not the realism of it.

I just finished my first year of university, and I met lots of people with an active social media presence. But the most socially active girl I met is also the one who invited me to come play football. I met one of my closest friends by talking to the girl I sat next to in physics class. Like many pieces of media, I find this to be an overexaggeration and sensationalist. I can't blame the author for that, it's a trend nowadays.

In my experience, social media can help us to connect to others, make plans, prepare for the times when we can see each other. I don't like the paradigm of selling user information -- I'd rather see something focused on that than sensationalize what isn't quite true.

[HoffmanMyster]

Being a teen, I feel I should comment on this.

I can appreciate the spoken-word poem on its own merits. Some parts of the message are definitely necessary -- I agree we shouldn't spend our entire lives glued to screens, but in my experience that's not the realism of it.

I just finished my first year of university, and I met lots of people with an active social media presence. But the most socially active girl I met is also the one who invited me to come play football. I met one of my closest friends by talking to the girl I sat next to in physics class. Like many pieces of media, I find this to be an overexaggeration and sensationalist. I can't blame the author for that, it's a trend nowadays.

In my experience, social media can help us to connect to others, make plans, prepare for the times when we can see each other. I don't like the paradigm of selling user information -- I'd rather see something focused on that than sensationalize what isn't quite true.

I'm always bummed out when I'm with a group of 6 people and they're all on their phones.  Like, why are we even sitting in this room together?  I know this situation is talked about all the time when this subject comes up, but seriously it's really dumb.