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Unknown and unstudied effects of media damaging our mental health?

How long does it take you to recognize the following symbol? " 1 "

Instantaneously, right? Like letter or numbers, your brain identifies them immediately. Not only because you learn them when you're young, as well as many other things, but because daily life reinforces the need for this ability, unlike many other things.

Subliminal messaging, I suggest, acts much in the same way. Advertisers have known this for years. What if not only positive and/or marketing plugs are made on TV, online, and just about everywhere else, but also inadvertent potential psychologically damaging subliminal messaging? And when everyday or occasional instances occur in real life that in some way reinforce this negative information, can that result in any of the multitude of mental disorders that exist?
Yes.

i once heard an artist saying: 'Advertising is mental environmental pollution' and hes right about.

People using the internet are known to react on this, for example they develop 'banner blindness'.

To get mental disorders other things must go wrong, eg food, not enough sport, but in general people are quite resistant to this kind of shit, i believe.

Also, not all effects of media are negative, eg they found out that children which use social communities on the internet have also better social competences in real life.

In general it can be said that the only medium having potential positive effects is the internet as it is a communication medium being open both sides. It is a telephone, not a television.
i should add that also parents play a big role, eg they found out that a religious mother or a mother with a science degree has a good effect on girls.
@CrackPipeChicken, did you ever watch Minority Report? ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/ ) In that sci-fi movie, advertisements were individually tailored and directly bombarded the citizens *everywhere*.

Like with all things in life, we should take the good with the bad. Optimism and pessimism are two sides of the same coin called realism.

@awesomer, after that fiasco between noscript and adblock, I switched to ghostery. (I don't mindlessly block ads anymore, just the other intrusive stuff.) Well, I still get distracted by banners that have fake mouse cursor icons in them.

Yes, a guardian/mentor/parent that fosters a child develop an inquiring mind grounded on moderation and logical/ethical values surely helps.
#4 that remembers me to finally write a decent tutorial for the masses how to get rid of unwanted stuff on the internet using combinations of Proxomitron / Privoxy / Yarip / Stylish / Greasemonkey / Ghostery / Toolbar Buttons / YesScript / Flashblock / Firebug / HackTheWeb / Other Firefox Addons.

which fiasco are you referring to? Link?
@awesomer, back then, I read about the issues from both sides of the fence. "Pot calling kettle black" so to speak. This article (which I only recently googled) should give you an overview. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/adblock-noscript.html

(I switched to yesscript as well. The irony is that my current laptop, a replacement for my broken desktop, is slow enough such that malicious javacript often fails to trigger due to lack of computational power, hahahaha.)

Also, as an aside, I wonder how this ( http://www.howtogeek.com/geeknote/firefox-is-killing-support-for-browser-plugins-and-thats-a-very-good-thing/ ) will affect my web surfing experience later on. =,=
@awesomer, back then, I read about the issues from both sides of the fence. "Pot calling kettle black" so to speak. This article (which I only recently googled) should give you an overview. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/adblock-noscript.html

(I switched to yesscript as well. The irony is that my current laptop, a replacement for my broken desktop, is slow enough such that malicious javacript often fails to trigger due to lack of computational power, hahahaha.)

Also, as an aside, I wonder how this ( http://www.howtogeek.com/geeknote/firefox-is-killing-support-for-browser-plugins-and-thats-a-very-good-thing/ ) will affect my web surfing experience later on. =,=
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/adblock-noscript.html

Didnt read through completely. These two dudes think they are special by hacking together some lame Firefox addons...

Well, everyone should anyway be able to understand the basics of HTML/XHTML/XML, URLs, CSS, XPath and regular expressions:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_urlencode.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_nodes.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_syntax.asp
http://regexone.com/

So if one quickreads through these tutorials he will be able to use the tools given in #5. And that means no one at all can force upon him any ads or any other elements he does not want on the internet.

We can thank the dudes who decided that webpages should not be compiled. Which would be the dudes at W3C:
http://www.w3.org/People/
#9, if you're going to throw around insults, please qualify your statement and state the reasons you believe the OP to be BS.

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