But does all of that need to be near real time?
Emergencies should go through other media. Family and friendship updates can happen on a different schedule.
Slowing things down could have beneficial effects: less show off. Less bullying, etc.
Emergencies should go through other media. Family and friendship updates can happen on a different schedule.
Slowing things down could have beneficial effects: less show off. Less bullying, etc.
I'm trying to imagine my grandma, who lived through WWII and polio and Korea and the civil rights movement and Vietnam and the oil crisis and decades of worrying about nuclear war et c. and didn't use a communication device more advanced than a home telephone until some time after 2005, having a meltdown over six. hours. without Facebook and WhatsApp. LOL. This is a woman who wouldn't think it's that weird if a house didn't have tap water.
Give it a few weeks or a month and people would mostly get used to it.
It’s like when revolutions happen and all that you depended on pretty much collapses (Afghanistan today) or losing rights (China and maybe Australia), people soon enough get used to not having things. Initially it’s shocking but people get on with life and make do where necessary.
I wonder how soon, if it has not already happened, that people "report" emergencies through "Insta-Tok-Whats-Book" first and/or instead of dialling 911/999/&c.
People are free to choose how they communicate with each other, and that’s great. Nobody has to use Facebook.
If you’re proposing that we start regulating how other people choose to communicate with each other, that’s a different question entirely and not something even worth talking about in a free society.