social media as a whole was a mistake. I get that this site technically counts, but it feels like more of a callback to "retro" social media when forums were the dominant form. It was a lot easier to take breaks from forum posting back in the day. You didn't have an algorithm that fed you content at every hour endlessly. I complain about the terrible and inconsistent wifi here, but a part of me is happy that it's this way because I'm sure I'd be seeing a lot more people glued to their phones all the time.
I'm in a pretty similar situation with my mom except she watches radlib ones. I visited her last weekend and we had wanted to go do something but she spent a couple hours watching Tiktoks when she told me she was getting ready and we ended up having to cancel. I can't say I've never binged videos like that but I realized what was happening after the first couple times and I don't watch them anymore because they basically turn the viewer into an addict from the first hit. That model of social media is dangerous.
I remember downloading TikTok a few years ago and realizing that I had spent an entire work day just flipping through video after video after video. By the end of the day my brain felt hazy. I deleted it shortly after, it was absolutely nuts
Not really. I never actually got into Tik Tok but I was watching stuff on the :reddit-logo: app which is kind of similar with the new video player. When I realized what was happening I uninstalled it for a while. I reinstalled it later but now I only go on a couple of subreddits that don't have that kind of content. For something like Tik Tok where the only content is those short videos I would probably have to just uninstall it.
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social media as a whole was a mistake. I get that this site technically counts, but it feels like more of a callback to "retro" social media when forums were the dominant form. It was a lot easier to take breaks from forum posting back in the day. You didn't have an algorithm that fed you content at every hour endlessly. I complain about the terrible and inconsistent wifi here, but a part of me is happy that it's this way because I'm sure I'd be seeing a lot more people glued to their phones all the time.
Hexbear php forum when?
Social media is the video tape from infinite jest
I'm in a pretty similar situation with my mom except she watches radlib ones. I visited her last weekend and we had wanted to go do something but she spent a couple hours watching Tiktoks when she told me she was getting ready and we ended up having to cancel. I can't say I've never binged videos like that but I realized what was happening after the first couple times and I don't watch them anymore because they basically turn the viewer into an addict from the first hit. That model of social media is dangerous.
I remember downloading TikTok a few years ago and realizing that I had spent an entire work day just flipping through video after video after video. By the end of the day my brain felt hazy. I deleted it shortly after, it was absolutely nuts
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Not really. I never actually got into Tik Tok but I was watching stuff on the :reddit-logo: app which is kind of similar with the new video player. When I realized what was happening I uninstalled it for a while. I reinstalled it later but now I only go on a couple of subreddits that don't have that kind of content. For something like Tik Tok where the only content is those short videos I would probably have to just uninstall it.
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