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> There aren't a lot of activities a person could, theoretically, engage in in public view without getting in some kind of trouble, that look as gross as starin
by msla 8y ago
> There aren't a lot of activities a person could, theoretically, engage in in public view without getting in some kind of trouble, that look as gross as staring at a screen alone.
Staring at someone staring at a screen? Yelling at someone staring at a screen?
Neither of those are technically alone, but that's the point: Bothering someone else is infinitely worse than... you know... not.
- asark 8y agoWhat? I'm considering why we find "screen time" especially distasteful. It just looks bad, for some reason. Worse than someone lounging and reading, worse than a person running or playing a sport, and so on. It's an unsettling activity to watch, and catching a glimpse of oneself doing it is particularly creepy. I don't think I wrote anything about yelling at people. Did I? [EDIT] I think "using a computer" posture especially is the worst. Something about sitting upright at a desk or table using a computer is really weird. Like the person's body's subservient to the activity, while also being kind of absent from the whole thing. It's much worse than bending-neck-to-use-a-cellphone or slouching-on-couch-playing-console-games look.
- chillwaves 8y agoMacular degeration is associated with staring at computer screens excessively.
- msla 8y ago"Stop that or you'll go blind!" is a common refrain from the people scared of anything other people like.
- chillwaves 8y agoThe studies are real, your snide comment aside. Blue light is damaging and a causal relationship with macular degneration is well established.
- msla 8y agoYou're basing your argument on a false premise: Staring at a screen isn't uniquely terrible.