Little Library (Mr. Pace)

9/21/2025

Hey all,

Since I didn't assign the Pacebook this week, I will do it.

Your phone is a portable library, newsroom, and megaphone. How has the way you consume information changed your sense of truth, attention span, or empathy? Is it making you wiser, or just louder?

13 Comments

Lucile Turner

9/21/2025 07:50:07 pm

I defiantly don't think that my phone has made me louder. I don't often comment on any posts and when I do it's usually on a compliment from a person I know in real life. What my phone has done is give me loads of information regarding to a lot of different felids including politics, current events, studies, and pretty much anything anyone can think of. This tool of technology helps me seek out truth regarding to my morals and allows me to see a wide variety of perspectives and opinions. The only tricky thing within this is watching out for lies or giant exaggerations spreaded online. Everyone knows that social media is fake, but while in the moment of scrolling, that knowledge seems to drift away in the present moment. However overall, my phone has allowed me to know who I am and what I stand for. People constantly questioning beliefs or ideas online helps strength my understanding of my core values.

Miles

9/21/2025 08:02:00 pm

Although there is a lot of misinformation on social media, I don't necessarily think that it is all lies. I do enjoy the fact that there can be civil discourse online in some cases. I like seeing other people's point of view on several topics, mainly political.

Cody Cox

9/29/2025 09:52:11 am

I agree with you. While phones can be very important to us when its staying in communication with someone that means a lot or just simply keeping up with the world, they also feed us lies about the world. So it is very important that if you are looking up or at things we need to make sure it is a good reliable site that we would trust.

Killian Smith

10/6/2025 09:15:14 pm

The importance of being able to recognize and filter fake news and unreal stories out is one that is often overlooked when one is given their first phone. Sure the warnings don’t talk to strangers online and don’t put any of your personal information anywhere are always given but what about don’t believe everything you see. As common as many think that knowledge is, it is less wide spread as you may think. This is apparent in the multitude of fake news spread in recent years about elections, vaccines, and even what other countries may or may not be doing. Truly showing how quickly a piece of media can spread misinformation.

Miles

9/21/2025 07:54:54 pm

I love being able to access information at my fingertips. The problem comes when information is specifically tailored to what I like or view, which is a problem with just about any media app on the market, whether it's news, videos, or reels. This causes a great divide between people's realities since they are only fed with information they agree with, limiting their "truths." Regarding attention span, phones have definitely shortened our attention span, since we are constantly being fed with dopamine through media and games. In general, I think one can use their phone to make themselves wiser, louder, or more knowledgeable. It just depends on what the user looks for in their phone. I know I look for all three in different occasions.

Lucile Turner

9/21/2025 08:11:02 pm

That's a good point. Because media is personalized to an individuals preference, it can be difficult to see sides from different perspectives. In a way, a lot of manipulation and propaganda can occur through this. If there's a big current event, people should make it a priority to view the situation from multiple opinions and outlets, not just from the media tailored to themselves.

Cody Cox

9/29/2025 09:56:22 am

This is very good. I say this because phones do bring a ton of good things to peoples life's. But while there is good there is also bad as well. Many people just sit on their phones wasting time away when they could be doing something productive. I know this because I do it sometimes and I look back after it and say to myself that I could've gone out with friends or be outdoors doing something.

Killian Smith

10/6/2025 09:18:49 pm

The singularity of information an individual gets is heavily based on their individual searching. If you don’t want to know something then you don’t look it up. In that the internet becomes single sided and weak in the amount of information you are truly able to use. Through this many people have built barriers to information that does not agree with what they believe giving a very narrow scope to build upon.

Alyssa Tracy

9/21/2025 07:58:01 pm

With the ability to read on a portable device it certainly has changed my viewpoints on some things. Biggest part of it all was not being able to know the whole story to a news story because of details that may be left out, or just how that writer views that situation (talking about leaning on either left or right side and not neutral). Since that, I don't believe everything online as it could be completely false, at most i just meander around the storylines. But when hearing a crazy thing someone else says, I can "fact" check it in a way quicker and possibly find a more reliable source. I would definitely say it hasn't made me louder of voicing my opinions because I don't comment or share my opinions online. If anything a quick comment to my friends. I would have to say my attention span has decreased a little bit just due to the way information is spread nowadays.

Miles

9/21/2025 08:07:01 pm

The internet is definitely a good source of information when trying to check if something's correct or not. It is a blessing and a curse; lots of information, but a lot of it is not right.

Lucile Turner

9/21/2025 08:14:40 pm

I also don't love posting my opinion online through comments. While voicing your opinion is always beneficial, it can really suck getting uneducated replies insulting and rage baiting my comment, hoping for an emotional reply. Also, I'm not really sure what the fear came from but I always hesitate to comment because I'm afraid if someone I know in person will see my comment. It's not like my opinion would sway when speaking to someone in person, but its almost sketchy thinking that someone read what I had to say without me knowing.

Cody Cox

9/23/2025 09:40:36 am

The way that we now consume information is way different from before in my opinion. Now instead of reading books and verified articles, we now have apps like Instagram or TikTok that has people feeding us false information. Then, when we hear about other facts we end up not knowing what is right and what is wrong. I would say that the phones are not making us wiser. I say this because as it gives us good advice it also gives us more bad advice. So the people that are not on their phones 24/7 in my opinion are more smarter and wiser because they have time to learn on their own and not on their phones that give them fake information. I think if nobody had phones we would pay more attention, learn better, and value other things in our life more than others.

Killian Smith

10/6/2025 09:09:33 pm

Once I got a phone I definitely felt my knowledge and f the world was expanded, for better or for worse, in subjects such as politics, global affairs, and the struggles of many just to survive.in this grown knowledge I feel I have become wiser but at the same time there are many negatives, for example social medias and unchecked internet access exposes many to information and communication that is really quite pointless, noise for noises sake or fluff if you are Braswell. So when the activities of personal devices rose so did people’s access to information. This has made people wiser and louder, louder being usually a negative connotation, but I feel both are good things. In becoming wiser we form opinions and morals on our own beliefs and what are opinions and morals if you do not stand up for them, be loud about what you believe to be true.

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