There are plenty of good young people eager to work an keen.
There was plenty of dossers whilst I trained and went to school in my generation, an seen plenty in the generation above an below me.
It's not a new thing that, just maybe more noticeable. Rose tinted glasses me thinks.
I disagree Rob,
These social media platforms have been designed to be addictive, as the video says, they trigger very well studied, documented and understood responses in the human brain to certain stimuli.
These Dopamine effects coupled with Classic Conditioning, Pavlov's Dog, and the understanding of human sexual drivers, Freud, have all been combined to create some of the most addictive and controlling mechanisms humanity has ever faced.
When applied at a young enough age this conditioning is almost impossible to break but even as adults are we are not immune, we all like the 'likes' and 'agrees' we get to posts, how do those affect your behaviour?
These effects have always been used, subconsciously, to program human behavior. The reward of praise for a good deed was often enough to make a child try to please again, we call it good parenting.
The problem is They know what they are doing to a largely uneducated and unaware public.
Facebook for instance has the ability to make access to their platform, if not impossible, unusable for under 13s. It chooses not to do this as they know the earlier the programming starts the more effective it is.
As Aristotle said "give me a child until he is seven and I'll show you the man"
None of this is new, what is new is the widespread and, in my opinion, nefarious uses that it is being put to namely profit and social control.
I think that this is thankfully becoming apparent to more and more people.
Ten years ago I'd have a 95% "you're mad" response to such ramblings, today most people at least see the potential for nefariousness.