YouTube Addiction

Post by Kamq » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 7:28 PM UTC

cpsns wrote: post #185

sysadm1n wrote: post #178

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> I am seriously addicted to the internet 'Addiction' depends on circumstances. If you're lucky enough to be able to spend copious amounts of time online, good for you. I know for me, I don't have that opportunity. There's too much other stuff hampering my ability to get online like kids, marriage, chores, other hobbies, work, etc

> If you're lucky enough to be able to spend copious amounts of time online, good for you. I am not the lucky one, you are. My life is a sick joke, meanwhile you by all traditional measures have it made if you have all that. If I didn't have my job I'd have literally nothing going for me. When I say this has cost me oppertunites I don't mean small ones, I mean even things like potential relationships. Everything has…

Post by hxugufjfjf » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 7:28 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #53

yladiz wrote: post #43

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Nope. Stop using the medical word addiction in contexts where it's highly inappropriate. The Internet isn't even a single thing. It's just a collection of content. The types of content on it are extremely wildly varying. Internet addiction is not a thing. See how stupid it sounds when you say it like it is? Outside of lampooning how absurd your comment sounds, I don't think it's your place to call if something is a v…

Absolutely. There is also no such thing as internet addiction. When you compare drug based addictions to things people enjoy the difference is clear. The drugs create increased incentive salience even without enjoyment. This is very different from say, watching a video where you actually have to enjoy it intrinsically many times before it alters incentive salience. There's a reason the DSM5 and ICD-10 don't have any…

Post by pfoof » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 7:30 PM UTC

Post by hxugufjfjf » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #149

charles_f wrote: post #122

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> Stop using the medical word addiction in contexts where it's highly inappropriate. Youtube isn't even a single thing You're playing with semantics in a context where 1) everyone understands what the author is saying when talking about addiction, making it appropriate to convey what they mean 2) the word pre-dates DSM, the fact that DSM defines that in a medical sense doesn't change the definition from the dictionar…

1: And that's the problem: people believing they know what addiction is and applying it to pretty much anything they or others like to do. It's like how people who are a little finicky would say, "Yeah, that's my ADHD." but it's not. The other groups advocating for useless loose definitions of "addiction" are typically scam groups that run paid seminars for things like "porn addiction". About as legit as anti-homosex…

Post by aswanson » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 7:32 PM UTC

forinti wrote: post #176

SoftTalker wrote: post #163

I fall asleep to YouTube -- not watching, I just put on a boring documentary with a monotone narrator, just loud enough that I can hear the voice. I don't even really discern the words. And it distracts my brain from whatever else I'd be thinking about and I fall asleep more easily. Not sure why this is, I guess it's like having someone read a bedtime story to a kid. I have a premium account so there are no ads.

I had some trouble sleeping during lockdown and found out philosophy videos got me sleeping very well. Especially the ones about Kant. Still managed to learn a bit though.