From: huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com   
      
   wasbit  wrote in news:10fheqb$1ev4g$1@dont-   
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   > On 17/11/2025 10:18, Andy Burns wrote:   
   >> Adrian Caspersz wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Stefan Ram wrote:   
   >>> >> Ben Collver wrote or quoted:   
   >>>> >>> Has social media engineered the collapse of the human mind?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Already in the 70s, we had a band named "Devo", who believed   
   >>>>    mankind had begun to regress.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    But to be sure that social media are the culprit, it might   
   >>>>    help to look specifically for young people who do not use   
   >>>>    them (if such people can be found) and then to look whether   
   >>>>    they really fare better in tests.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's listening to pop music that does it.   
   >> In the same way that pocket calculators killed mental arithmetic in the   
   >> 70s, I would look at whether it's search engines, rather than social   
   >> media which are/have killed memory ...   
   >>   
   >   
   > I used to know practically every phone number I needed. Now I have to   
   > look up my own.   
      
   I still remember my frined's phone numbers from long ago as well as the   
   current ones.  I can navigate several cities and most of the USA by deead   
   reconning and memory.  I rarely use maps or lookup a route to someplace   
   before going.  The journey counts as much as getting to th =e destination.   
   Use your mind and you will find much you never new existed.  Listen to   
   social media and you are stuck in the mud.   
      
   Be well and follow God on your journey...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)