• luke_workin@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    “What could you do to make someone’s day better this week?” one of them asks. “Write about a time you found an unexpected solution to a hard problem,” reads another.

    I didn’t realize the journal app was just asking people to rewrite college application essays lol

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      11 months ago

      Yeah this is the biggest ick for me. I find the prompts cringey or downright asinine. This trend of coaching/prompting entries in various services/apps is very off-putting. Like advertisements and propaganda telling you want to think and buy werent enough, now people need to be coached about what to think about for a journal entry? Truly people are getting dumber, and Apple increasingly treating consumers as dumb as the lowest rung. Not a good long term outlook.

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        11 months ago

        Have you ever bought a physical journal? Journal prompts that you can choose to use or not are extremely common in physical journals. This isn’t anything different.