Facebook and Youtube Culture has a negative impact on people in young years development and teenagers

Tuesday, 13th December 2011

Facebook and Youtube helps young people get stupid

Facebook and Youtube has become for just a few years a defacto standard service for 80% of computer users in our age.
This is true and it seems there is growing tendency for people to adopt new easy to use services and a boom in the social networks.
We’ve seen that with the fast adoption of the anti-human freedom program Skype , the own privacy breaching FaceBook as well as the people interests tracking service YouTube.

We’ve seen similar high adoption rates in earlier times as well with the already dying (if not dead MySpace), with the early yahoo mail boom etc and in even earlier times with the AltaVista search engine use.
However this time it appears Youtube and FaceBook are here to stay with us and become standard online services for longer times …
Many people who work in office all day staring in a computer screen as well as growing teenagers and practically anyone in the developed and the development world is using those services heavily for (in between 5 to 10 hours a day or more). The Software as a Service users spends approximately half of their time spend on the internet in Youtube or and Facebook.

Its true Youtube can be massively educative with this global database of videos on all kind of topics and in some cases facebook can be considered helpful in keeping in touch people or keeping a catalog of pictures easily accessible from everywhere, however when few services becomes more used and influential than other provided services on the internet this makes these services harmful to the communities and destroyes cultures. The concentration of most of the human popuplation who uses high technologies around few online services creates a big electronic monopoly. In other words the tendency, we see of amalgamation of businesses in real world (building of big malls and destroyment of small and middle sized shops is being observed in the Internet space.

Besides that Facebook and Youtube and Twitter are highly contrary to the true hacker spirit and creates a big harm for intellectuals and other kind of tight and technical community culture by creating one imaginative casual disco culture without any deepness of thought or spirit.

Its observable that most of the people that are heavily using those services are turning into (if not exaggerate) a brainless consumer zombies, a crowd of pathless people who watch videos and pictures and write meaningless commentaries all day long.

You have as a result a “unified dumbness” (dumbness which unifies people).

Even if we can accept the grown and fully formed character people are aware of the threats of using Youtube or Facebook, this is definitely not the case with the growing people which are still in a process of building personality and personal likings.
The harmful resuls that the so called Social networks create can be seen almost everywhere, most of the cafeterias I visit the bar tender uses facebook or youtube all da long, most of random people I see outside in a coffee or university or any public institution where internet access is available they are again in Youtube and Facebook. The result is people almost did not use the Net but just hang around in those few services wasting network bandwidth and loading networks and computer equipment and spending energy for nothing. The wasteful computer and Internet deepens the ecologic problems as energy is spend on nonsense and not goal oriented tasks but on “empty” false entertainment.
Hence the whole original idea of internet for many is changed and comes to few words ( Skype, Youtube, Facebook etc.

Besides that youngsters instead of reading some classical valuable books, are staring in the computer screen most of their cognitive time at only this few “services” and are learned to become more a consumers than self opinion thinkers and inventors.
I have not lately met any growing real thinking man. I’ve seen already by own experience the IQ level of younger generations than mine (I’m 28) is getting downer and downer. Where I see as a main cause the constant interaction with technology built in a way to restrict, a consumers technology so to say.
Facebook and Youtube puts in young and growing man’s mind, the wrong idea that they should be limited choice people always praising what is newest and brightest (without taking in consideration any sight effects). These services lead people to the idea that one should always be with the crowds and never have a solid own opinion or solid state on lifely matters. As said own opionion is highly mitigated especially in facebook where all young people try to look not what they really are but copy / paste some trendy buzz words, modern style or just copying the today’s hearoes of the day. This as one can imagine prevents a person of getting a strong unique self identity and preference on things.

Many of the older people or computer illiterates can hardly recognize the severe problems, as they’re not aware on the technical side of things and does not realize how much security compromising as well as binding the constant exposure to those online hives are.
The purpose of this small post is hence just a small attempt to try to raise up some awareness of the potential problems, we as society might face very soon if we continue to follow the latest buzz trends instead of stop for a moment have a profound think on what is the moral consequences of giving so much power on Internet medias like Facebook and Youtube? …

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7 Responses to “Facebook and Youtube Culture has a negative impact on people in young years development and teenagers”

  1. Debbie Zarco says:
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    I have discovered that Microsoft security essentials is ok when you have nothing superior. Fortunately for many people you will find significantly better free software options that are quicker and more accurate in discovering viruses on your desktop. More to the point, there are superior software programs which are active and block malware prior to they install. Obviously MS also safeguards real-time, however is not nearly as effective.

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  2. dave mcdaniels says:
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    Great blog keep up the good work!

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  3. admin says:
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    This is a huge problem that is moving out society in the wrong direction. Just look at how our kids are communicating and how many problems they have. Facebook has grown into a nightmare. Twitter drives society instead of the other way around. We need to seriously wake up to the cancer of Facebook and Twitter. Or maybe the better analogy would be alcholism…

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  4. Aaron says:
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    I just read your blog and there are a lot of relevant points to a study that I am compiling. However, in your blog I didn’t see any name in which I could have used as a reference.

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    • admin says:
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      Hi Aaron,

      There is a about me section where there is a short info about me.

      Regards,

      Georgi

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  5. Mark W says:
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    You must spend a lot of time on youtube. Downer and downer IQ? The whole article is full of poor wording and purely organized thought let alone those non existent words. For the life of me I can't understand what could be wrong with Skype. This is simply a phone service. Would you have been complaining about Bell telephones when that service was new? I was looking for reasonable thoughts on what I perceive on the negatives of youtube and Facebook, but with an open mind to find the good, as I need to understand what this might be doing to my children. Now after reading this my IQ feels downer…..

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    • admin says:
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      What is bad about Facebook, Youtube, Skype and Smart Phones is it makes you a technocratic zoombie little by little. And I believe being posessed by anything is bad thing

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