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What? 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
by asark 8y ago
What? 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.