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Netflix user here. Honestly, people are going to watch TV no matter what. No amount of wishful thinking will make people do something more productive. Better
by Mikeb85 8y ago
Netflix user here. Honestly, people are going to watch TV no matter what. No amount of wishful thinking will make people do something more productive. Better Netflix than competitors, no?
- andrepd 8y ago>people are going to watch TV no matter what Well, not really. Obviously people already watch TV, but netflix is much more addictive, by design, and that's not a good thing. People are going to gamble no matter what, yet modern slots are many times more addictive, else the companies wouldn't research and develop them. >Better Netflix than competitors, no? Why?
- Mikeb85 8y ago> Why? Because the parent had worked for Netflix. > netflix is much more addictive, by design Is it? I remember people being glued to TVs for ungodly amounts of time before Netflix.
- ghaff 8y agoI’d argue that, for at least some people, streaming/TiVo/etc. can lead to more deliberate TV watching rather than plopping yourself down and begging out. I guess the counterpoint is there’s all this TV just sitting there for the watching but I’m honestly not sure which predominates. Many People historically watched a lot of TV, of whatever type happened to be on.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoOne issue I have is autoplay -- when a program stops you get a pause and time to think if you want to do something else. Which is why they don't let it stop ... Continuous play is difficult with kids; you have to poll the TV viewing, rather than getting an interrupt. It's literally the only bit of Netflix I'm personally not happy with.
- Grue3 8y agoThere was a time when people didn't watch TV. They used to listen to radio. And before radio they used to read books. It's entirely possible that a new form of media will come along, hopefully less focused on passive consumption of content.