This really isn’t that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
It is and isn’t. I think that TV, as a longer-form of entertainment, has less harmful effects on attention-span, for example.
Hearing kids talk about not being able to focus long enough to watch a movie or tv show is a bummer.
Though that’s not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
Yeah you can bedrot and watch youtube (long videos) or a movie instead of short form media.
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The quality of movies and TV shows is also gone to shit. I blame no one for not being able to pay attention to the absolute crap airing on TV nowadays.
I think its very different, because the algorithms are feeding you things you emotionally react to. Also i bet it changes your entire view of things very much. You dont have things like gender wars on tv very much, but its all over social media. I think it affects how young people think more than anything. Much more than tv.
You can look at the Lemmy front page also and see common themes, and over time, all this affects how young people think about themselves, politics, sex, anything really.
I dont think tv is even remotely affecting people in the same way as social media… Specially when you are young, it can affect you extreamly much. Because that need to fit in is super strong.
I grew up in the 90s and I was watching tv, so I know it didnt affect me at all as much as todays social media. But thats me, just one person. Perhaps its not the same for everyone, so this is just my opinion.
Yeah I don’t know what the algorithm pushes on others but I definitely see more conservative propaganda than I like…… I’ve even started seeing shite like parasites causing diabetes and other insane health conspiracy theories
I suppose all the dating and gender role nonsense is most likely of the stuff pushed on me to affect someone, because it’s widespread, not too extreme, and starts with a grain of truth before heading off the rails
You can quickly try on YouTube - search for something like miami vice and watch a few seconds of a video. Then go back to your feed. Observe how it now has lots of related content.
These days it takes just seconds for the entire feed to change to your choices. So even if you are just a little curious about something, like flat earth, you will start to get that kind of content within seconds. So people get pulled into filter bubbles without even noticing.
So, likely major depressive disorder? I’m not surprised. The future looks bleak.
Don’t forget about chronic diseases that keep people in bed all day.
Especially chronic gut diseases which have been skyrocketing and appear to be related to PFAs “forever chemicals” (that the USA recently decided to stop regulating )
Not do downplay the almost 100% increase over 30 years, but that chart is a bit misleading, with the vertical axis not starting at 0
“Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous” - the perennial headline
So what do you call it when older people do it, but the screen is further away (TV)?
Couch potato.
Apparently I’ve been 20 years ahead of the curve. I didn’t call it bed rotting (ew) I called it “fucking depressed leave me alone”
You’re such a hipster, I just call it being alive
not just gen z. that’s like every second or third day for me when my skeleton is like “fuck you old man, if you wanted to move now you shouldn’t have been a tradesman”
Bedmaxxing restpilled youth
I’ve done the same with books, so…
And 20 years ago it was books, magazines, newspaper, gameboys, etc. Nothing has changed.
magazines
yes, we had to keep a physical collection hidden under the bed
Gen X here. Can concur. But I’m also an athlete so I only spend 50% of my time bed rotting. 50% of my life climbing, jumping, running, swimming, hiking, skydiving, I’d say I’m pretty well balanced but bed rotting is a true recovery strategy laying flat on my back with legs propped up for days.
Laid off… no money… no means… what the fuck do they expect? Going to Disneyland?
That’s called addiction.
Back in my day, we just rotted in bed ruminating on negative thoughts. We didn’t have no memes, except what was in our imaginations!
I had my Gameboy with the little swivel light.
We imagined our own memes, and we liked it.
You call it “imagining memes”; I call it “fantasizing while masturbating”
We are probably the same
Did you though?
Shower thoughts are imagined memes.
Yes, but did you actually like them?
I said we liked imagining, not that we liked what we imagined.
Man, I’m a fucking trend setter.
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps “armchair rot” so as to mitigate back problems.
