I think technology, on a tightly controlled, very limited basis...can be a good thing. Our current situation, however, with social media websites, money based flow.of.information, censorship....is a doggone mess. I'm old enough to remember (like the movie "War Games") where a computer dialed another computer through the phone line, and you played a video game with another person on a DOS OS. Pong, was my first game. Remember Juno free email, "e-zines", and "You've Got Mail". That was my twenties. I'm turning 50 in a few months, and have gone full circle from building desktops and graphic design, to farming on a small scale.
That being said, I'm currently attempting to exploit said technology to make the feed bill. I see a lot of modern "small homesteads" employing a lot of different income streams and I'm attempting to do so as well. So I'm attempting to profit from people's narcissistic addiction to technology (I'm guilty, too). I have a YT channel, Fakebook, Instagram, and TikTok, as well as a home base website that so far doesn't get cancelled if I say the wrong thing. On those, I post affiliate links along with my articles and videos of how to do self sufficiency skills and so on.
It's really hard to keep our kids away from it,.and it causes social ineptness and social anxiety, inability to connect with other people or look them in the eye. Electromagnetic energy pulsed into the body Brain over stimulation from the lignt.
Short attention span and horrible communication skills. HORRIBLE spelling. In addition to exposing us all to some just really awful material,.and is a doorway for pedos and financial scammers. When my 6 yr old grandson comes to visit,.all gadgets are put away. His.purpose.for being here is to experience farm life. And you know what? His "ADD" just magically disappears! And he falls into bed happily exhausted after we read a story from.an actual book with pages, and doesn't have bad dreams when he's here. At his own house, they put in cartoons for him to go to sleep by. Although we do watch Tom.n Jerry cartoons in bed in the mornings for a bit while I suck down my coffee, attempting to rally the energy to keep up with this child. Lol. Grama needs coffee!
I work very hard to limit my social media time to "work" and during my morning coffee time. And I work very hard to avoid negativity on it,.politics, arguments, and the like. I post on forums rarely. Mostly it's work. Part of my daily routine. I compose a video, and/or blog article for both my farm and hub's handyman business, share to all my social medias and then get OFF the phone. And go outside to do things with the animals. Movement is what my fat body needs, not setting on my butt in front of a screen getting hungry and angry.from.commercials.and.negative posts.
