Someday Someone Will Pay Attention to My Foolishness...Or will they?

 

I often blog about important stuff but I surround the important stuff with Foolishness and Humor and I end up with My Dear Readers laughing at the Foolishness and the Humor but not thinking about the message coming at them about the Important Stuff.

A good case in point is Social Media. Many years ago I blogged about the smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth (the link to that Blog Posting will be found near the bottom of this Blog Posting).

I won’t for a second try to claim that this blog of mine is the reason for the attention being paid at present to the problems Social Media is inflicting on our young people but I sure wish I could claim that credit.

Did you just say, “What attention is Fella talking about?” Fella says,, “Where you been? It’s all over the Internet.” I searched the Internet for “restrict access to social media” and here is some of what I got back...

Ø Social media age restrictions

Ø Social media restrictions on employees

Ø Government restrictions on social media

Ø Social media restrictions in China

Ø North Korea social media restrictions

Ø Media restrictions in the U.S.

Ø State Laws Ban Access to Workers' Social Media Accounts

Ø Ohio could require parental consent for kids to use some social media

Ø 9 social media blocker apps to stay focused and productive

Ø Are We Entering a New Era of Social Media Regulation?

Ø These Countries Have Outlawed Social Media

One thing everyone involved and/or concerned can all agree on is it is not their fault. In other words the other guy did it.

Fella’s not so humble opinion is It Ain’t Going to Be Fixed because the Genie is Out of the Bottle and We Will Never Find the Bottle Key So We Can Open The Bottle and Put Him Back In.

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We are now near the Bottom and here is the Link I promised up Top that I would give you here at the Bottom... https://forii.blogspot.com/2019/01/i-first-wrote-about-this-subject-almost.html

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Yea, you can accuse me of being a Doom and Gloom Fella about never finding the Bottle Key. I am convinced of this because the obsession with the Smartphone and all the evil that comes with it is too powerful. Here’s how you might prove to yourself that I am right...

Ø Go to a coffee shop of your choice that has an outside sitting area that is on a busy street where people are walking past a lot.

Ø For 1 hour keep count, using your fingers, of the number of teenage walkers that go by that do not have a phone in their hand as they bustle by.

Ø At the end of the hour, you will have a count that did not require a third hand and you probably did not even have to use the thumbs.

Let’s face it. We all want to know what the each of us had for lunch. It’s going to be hard to stop this crescendo from continuing to wreak havoc with us.