This really isn't that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
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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.
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!
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.
I had my Gameboy with the little swivel light.
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 )
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Man, I'm a fucking trend setter.
"Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous" - the perennial headline
I've done the same with books, so...
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps "armchair rot" so as to mitigate back problems.
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"
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Nah, I'm officerotting. Probably the only thing I've managed to do so far today is contribute to Lemmy network effect :P
My life in Infosec. It's super boring until suddenly it's not.
This is why I play Nethack.
Turn-based. Fully interruptible.
ASCII-based. Fully playable in an 80x24 ssh tty that nobody will notice and take approximately no bandwidth.
Oh, no one else at work cares. The CSIO will come up with excuses for us to bring up a gaming console to "test firewall access"
Kids the days… are entirely relatable.
Bedmaxxing restpilled youth
Why isn't GenZ participating in our accelerated hellscape?
Isn't this just called having a lazy morning?
Like you wake up but don't feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?
As long as you're not doing that for ages every single day, I'd say it's fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.
I’m pretty sure they are talking about doing this all day. It’s just a new name for major depressive disorder.
Oooooo I have that one!
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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"
Throw in a couple of beers and that's a perfect day.
You fucking psycho.
Think of how many times you'll need to get out of bed to piss.
(This comment brought to you by shots of vodka)
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Isn’t that what they referred to as couch potatoes in boomer time?
Pretty much. Same shit, different corn.
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.
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
Laid off... no money... no means... what the fuck do they expect? Going to Disneyland?
I remember when social media was going to brain-rot the kids, it ended up brain-rotting the boomers.
This is going to be the same, this is the braindead for the boomers.
I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It'll get anyone that spends long enough online.
Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I've got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.
Comments like this are always a good reminder to get off Lemmy and do stuff I actually like
That's called addiction.
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