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My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by thfuran »

irjustin wrote: post #162
resonious wrote: post #76

Lately I've become convinced that video games and social media are in the same class as drugs and alcohol. They're a pretty fun way to kill time, but some people are predisposed to doing too much, and too much is dangerous. Also similar to drugs/alcohol: it seems to affect some people more than others. I know people who can check FB/TikTok for a couple minutes and then they're done, and I also know people who continu…

> video games and social media are in the same class as drugs and alcohol. Disagreed - one key aspect of the latter is physical dependance where withdraws are potentially life threatening. It's similar sledge hammer approach to putting weed on class 1 or treating all wrong doings as 'sin'. They are not the same things, should not be thought as the same nor treated the same.

>one key aspect of the latter is physical dependance where withdraws are potentially life threatening.

No, it isn't. Only a pretty small fraction of drugs that can have physical symptoms of withdrawal have potentially life threatening withdrawal.

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Post by Semaphor »

LiquidPolymer wrote: post #111

I’m curious what the generational divide is for this. I’m 57, love tech and enjoy the positive side of the internet in limited doses. But I find most social media boring. There is incredible and AMAZING art, accidental moments, serious discussion and fascinating analysis of the world to be found online. But without grounding myself in genuine experience in the stinky, cruel real world of human interaction, nature, an…

I’m only 36, but it’s the same for me with infinite scrolling (not for TV, I love TV shows and hate movies). I rarely even scroll far enough for a load to trigger.

But then I also am still using Facebook as a place to connect with people I know, which the vast majority, with prodding by FB, has abandoned, it seems.

edit: I should also mention that I rarely use my phone for anything.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

lrvick wrote: post #164
sodality2 wrote: post #24

I'm still young so maybe my mind hasn't matured enough to where I can combat this well. So I went heavy-handed - I have a button on my desk that when I press it, my server's DNS server (through which all my devices and router resolve) begins rejecting requests to reddit, instagram, twitter, hackernews, news.google.com, etc. For the next two hours, there is nothing I can do outside of SSH'ing through my mobile device…

I just ditched my smartphone entirely. Humanity survived until the 00s without them. You can too.

I mean you can doom scroll on a desktop or laptop machine as well.

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Post by tayo42 »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #176
farmerstan wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Humanity survived without winter jackets until the Ice Age. Then all of humanity would have gone extinct without them.

Yeah but there is nothing on social media that you actually need to survive.

phones are pretty convenient though. even just having a camera and gps in one small device is nice.

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Post by tayo42 »

LiquidPolymer wrote: post #111

I’m curious what the generational divide is for this. I’m 57, love tech and enjoy the positive side of the internet in limited doses. But I find most social media boring. There is incredible and AMAZING art, accidental moments, serious discussion and fascinating analysis of the world to be found online. But without grounding myself in genuine experience in the stinky, cruel real world of human interaction, nature, an…

i don't scroll but i do find my self refreshing to see if anything is new a lot. like being bored and checking the fridge over and over. i seem to have lots of 30min breaks here or there that i fill up with bs time wasters

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Post by IIAOPSW »

wmitty wrote: post #145
sodality2 wrote: post #24

I'm still young so maybe my mind hasn't matured enough to where I can combat this well. So I went heavy-handed - I have a button on my desk that when I press it, my server's DNS server (through which all my devices and router resolve) begins rejecting requests to reddit, instagram, twitter, hackernews, news.google.com, etc. For the next two hours, there is nothing I can do outside of SSH'ing through my mobile device…

My (crude) version of the same thing requires that I go 1000 meters from my house to press the button to enable the DNS for another 30 min of browsing (button is on a custom phone app, distance measured using phone GPS). One feature that I want to implement is to have the system randomly enable for 10 minutes - and to signal this by changing the color of light from a desk lamp (Phillips Hue). The idea is that when th…

Before I read "custom phone app", I was imagining a mysterious physical red button somewhere up a telephone pole you had to climb, which through some abuse-of-job-privileges-or-connections you had wired directly into the telephony wires leading into your house. Or perhaps a comically large high-voltage pull switch labelled "reddit" which sparks a bit for no reason. Maybe a series of such pull switches, one for every major distracting website.

I wish you hadn't clarified.

Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

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Post by chrismcb »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #176
farmerstan wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Humanity survived without winter jackets until the Ice Age. Then all of humanity would have gone extinct without them.

Yeah but there is nothing on social media that you actually need to survive.

There are a lot of tools on life, that make it more convenient, that aren't required to survive. Like a hammer for example.
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