Regular internet use may be linked to lower dementia risk in older adults, study says | CNN
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If your parents or grandparents ask you how to post on Instagram or how to send a birthday message to a Facebook friend, a new study suggests you might want to help them -- not just to be nice but because getting them online may help their brain health, too.

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  • neo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I think I would agree with what you're saying for a period of time right up until the smart phones really started taking off. Now they try to make Instagram/youtube/etc as addictive and mindless as TV ever was. The internet used to be used for a lot more text consumption (ahem reading) before this shift.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Now they try to make Instagram/youtube/etc as addictive and mindless as TV ever was.

      Nah, they're too in-your-face visually stimulating and the smartphone screens are too small for them. Even the act of swiping to the next Tiktok is a mild annoyance for them compared with just flipping to their favorite channel and completely vegetating. They would literally watch TV to fall asleep. It's so fucking creepy. Truly a mind killer.

      • neo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think there's truth to this. It's not nearly as mindless as TV. My mom was very into bulldog videos that appeared on Instagram on her phone the last time I went to visit my parents, but she can't just put on the "bulldogs" channel and let it play endlessly.

        Even youtube autoplay is ass and gets annoying fast.