iDisorders

Dr Larry Rosen was a very interesting person as were the ideas that he brought along with him for his talk last night.  The thought of my use of technology being a predictor for various emotional and personality disorders to be a fascinating concept.  I understand how posts on Facebook could reveal things like depression but to actually see that Facebook use can be a predictor for depression and a myriad of other things is shocking.  The basic concept is that Facebook use can be seen to be a good predictor for these disorders.  The idea is interesting in the fact that media that almost everyone uses almost everyday can be seen as a way to predict several psychological disorders so its possible that all these disorders are on the rise in society but a more interesting way to see it is that society is shifting more toward a society that would make it more out of place to not have these disorders.  This wasn't an idea that was covered in Dr Rosen's lecture but in my thoughts between then and now I have thought about this possibility and find it to be a crazy idea that we could become a mad, mad, mad world.