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What do normal people look at on their phones? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've been on Reddit for over a decade. But I'm done with that site and want to do something else. What do normal people look at on their phones? Is it all social media? Streaming?

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[-] amzd@kbin.social 41 points 8 months ago

Around me I see people watching the videos that just keep coming. Next video before you even had time to form a thought about the last one. I don’t think you should follow their example.

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago

It's weird! I sometimes look at teenagers browsing their phones on the grocery line and they're doing a ton of stuff while not actually doing anything. It's like they simply cant stand there alone with their thoughts for two minutes but need to just start opening random apps, scroll few times, switch to another app, like something, move again...

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago

If I don't distract, the demons rise up out of my subconscious and start chewing on my psyche. melancholy, ennui and existential dread follow leading to depression and suicidal ideation. Radical behavior, poor life choices are followed by death and a big mess reported on national news.

So...harm reduction!

[-] cascadingsymmetry@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

This was what people said about channel hopping back in the day.

This time the content is just made for people to channel hop at a faster rate.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Tiktok has completely destroyed the attention span of people.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 8 months ago

It's absolutely terrifying how much content is pushed into their eyeballs so quickly. I think about how overwhelmed I was with Reddit, and even here sometimes, and this is a pretty slow feed that I get to control. Control. Having constant video shoved into my eyes- I just don't think that can be healthy

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