A review by ranch2go
The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--And What W by Mary Aiken

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of two books used to support my HS senior thesis “How the U.S Government can Combat the Dark Web.” One of the most formative books for myself. Every year we drift further away from forming human connections. Phone addiction is real. Doomscrolling rots the brain and is being ingrained into children to satiate themselves as such by parents who don’t want the responsibility of raising them. Children are being exposed to social media and the internet at too young of an age and are being put af risk. Parents are exploiting them to strangers for likes.

“In time, when we are immersed in our smart homes, when we are attached to wearable technology, when children are in “[c]apptivity” seats or other-world immersing helmets, when we compete with robots for jobs, when our darkest desires have colonized cyberspace, and when we no longer have a distinct sense of self, perhaps then we might wish that we payed more attention to how technology, with no sense of regulation be it government or self, was affecting us.“

— Me, 2019. I thought I was so cool, but I did hit a lot of facts. Basically described cyberpunk.



TLDR: Parent your children instead of giving them devices.