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The Personality Traits That Put You At Risk For Smartphone Addiction (washingtonpost.com)
Zorro shares a report from The Washington Post: When the Trump-affiliated firm Cambridge Analytica obtained data on tens of millions of Facebook users, it used the "Big 5" or "Five Factor Model" personality test to target them with ads designed to influence their votes in the 2016 election. The test scores people on five traits -- openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism -- and was used in the election to predict the way a voter would respond to an advertisement. But the Big 5 can predict a lot more -- including how likely you are to even use Facebook or any other social media (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source).
That's because the way you score on the test can tell you how likely you are to become addicted to your screen. Research shows that people who score high on neuroticism, low on conscientiousness, and low on agreeableness are more likely to become addicted to social media, video games, instant messaging, or other online stimuli. Studies have also found that extraverts are more likely to become addicted to cellphone use than introverts. Some of the correlations make sense. Less agreeable people may be more apt to immerse themselves in technology because it does not require the kind of friendly interactions that real life does. Neurotic people have been shown to spend more time online because it validates their desire to belong or be part of a group. Conscientious people are less impulsive and therefore more able to control and organize their time. But then it gets complicated. Because according to a new study out of the State University of New York at Binghamton, specific combinations of those personality traits can mitigate or exaggerate one's propensity to addiction.
That's because the way you score on the test can tell you how likely you are to become addicted to your screen. Research shows that people who score high on neuroticism, low on conscientiousness, and low on agreeableness are more likely to become addicted to social media, video games, instant messaging, or other online stimuli. Studies have also found that extraverts are more likely to become addicted to cellphone use than introverts. Some of the correlations make sense. Less agreeable people may be more apt to immerse themselves in technology because it does not require the kind of friendly interactions that real life does. Neurotic people have been shown to spend more time online because it validates their desire to belong or be part of a group. Conscientious people are less impulsive and therefore more able to control and organize their time. But then it gets complicated. Because according to a new study out of the State University of New York at Binghamton, specific combinations of those personality traits can mitigate or exaggerate one's propensity to addiction.
It's almost like smartphones were invented for people who were too stupid to use a real computer (kind of like all Apple products).
No, you're clearly and objectively wrong.
Stupid people voted for either one of them.
The stupidest people didn't vote at all.
Smart people voted for some other candidate, regardless of them having a chance to win.
Don't you get it? 2016 was a no-win scenario for the entire country. Trump may have technically won, but every single American citizen was a big, big loser, whether they realize it or not.
Some of them who voted for Trump are starting to realize it. They're getting addicted to opioids because of that.
Some of the others who started to realize it decided to go on shooting rampages because they lost their marbles; they committed 'suicide by cop'.
Even when Congress finally has had enough, when Mueller uncovers enough dirt about Trump that even the GOP that backed him can't hold their nose anymore, and they impeach him and run him out of DC on a rail, we'll be stuck with Pence, which is at least a full order of magnitude worse in ways I don't even want to think about.
Even if Pence suddenly drops dead, all the way down the line to Speaker of the House and beyond, there's no good replacement to play POTUS until 2020.
So, you see, we're screwed six ways from Sunday. Nothing can save us now. It's a toss-up whether we'll all die in nuclear fire, have our heads cut off by terrorists, or be enslaved by the communist Chinese government.
So drink up while you can. There's no point in even worrying about it now, nothing any of us does or says can alter our trajectory.