5 ms·

It's kind of sad just seeing people glued to smartphones 24/7. I guess I started noticing it when going out again after lockdown restrictions were lifted where

It's kind of sad just seeing people glued to smartphones 24/7. I guess I started noticing it when going out again after lockdown restrictions were lifted where I live.

mattgreenrocks 5y ago
Yes, there needs to be a larger conversation about the level of addiction exhibited by adults. Kids are also an issue, but it doesn't help when adults are setting the expectation that phone addiction is okay.
- asdff 5y ago
  At least my generation of adults has had smartphones since middle school now. People have neck problems from craning over. The minute there is a lull in the conversation the addicted and hungry brain seeks to fill the void with dopamine, and a phone appears open to some infinite scrolling app before the user can understand what even just happened. Oh and people rip juuls like there is no tomorrow either, so there are physical addictions among my generation. You have older millenials now in their mid thirties who are hiding in the bathroom stalls at their workplaces to hit their juul. All that effort getting generation X off of cigarettes and the work is undone within a few short years with a single company from san fransisco. Unbelievable that we always foolishly go after the vice of the day (when I was a kid it was flavored cigarettes, look at all the good banning that did) instead of outlawing using the science of addiction for profit in the first place and nipping all of these dark patterns in the bud in one fell swoop.
  - sodality2 5y ago
    It is absolutely as pervasive as you say, I can confirm. It takes a LOT of discipline to not fall in the pit. The algorithms truly are that hard to resist especially at a young and impressionable age.
  - FearlessNebula 5y ago
    I’m super guilty of this. I don’t take a piss without scrolling Reddit
- m0zg 5y ago
  Which is why it's especially troublesome when we see _kids specifically_ being targeted with dopamine-addictive services like this. Get 'em when they're young and stupid, and they'll be your recurring revenue for the rest of their useless wretched lives. Why useless and wretched? Because they got hooked on dompamine hits from this, and never had the time to develop any skills which we, adults, lucked into developing due to not having these "services" which consume 5-8 hours of our kids' days, every day, for years on end. Quite simply I'm a software engineer today because I was bored out of my mind when I was 10 years old. There were only 3 TV channels (USSR), only about 30 minutes of children's programming a day, and no internet, let alone smartphones or Instagram. If there was all that, I'd be literally cleaning pig shit between dopamine hits from my smartphone.

It's kind of sad just seeing people glued to smartphones 24/7. I guess I started noticing it when going out again after lockdown restrictions were lifted where I live.

mattgreenrocks 5y ago

Yes, there needs to be a larger conversation about the level of addiction exhibited by adults. Kids are also an issue, but it doesn't help when adults are setting the expectation that phone addiction is okay.

asdff 5y ago
At least my generation of adults has had smartphones since middle school now. People have neck problems from craning over. The minute there is a lull in the conversation the addicted and hungry brain seeks to fill the void with dopamine, and a phone appears open to some infinite scrolling app before the user can understand what even just happened. Oh and people rip juuls like there is no tomorrow either, so there are physical addictions among my generation. You have older millenials now in their mid thirties who are hiding in the bathroom stalls at their workplaces to hit their juul. All that effort getting generation X off of cigarettes and the work is undone within a few short years with a single company from san fransisco. Unbelievable that we always foolishly go after the vice of the day (when I was a kid it was flavored cigarettes, look at all the good banning that did) instead of outlawing using the science of addiction for profit in the first place and nipping all of these dark patterns in the bud in one fell swoop.
- sodality2 5y ago
  It is absolutely as pervasive as you say, I can confirm. It takes a LOT of discipline to not fall in the pit. The algorithms truly are that hard to resist especially at a young and impressionable age.
- FearlessNebula 5y ago
  I’m super guilty of this. I don’t take a piss without scrolling Reddit
m0zg 5y ago
Which is why it's especially troublesome when we see _kids specifically_ being targeted with dopamine-addictive services like this. Get 'em when they're young and stupid, and they'll be your recurring revenue for the rest of their useless wretched lives. Why useless and wretched? Because they got hooked on dompamine hits from this, and never had the time to develop any skills which we, adults, lucked into developing due to not having these "services" which consume 5-8 hours of our kids' days, every day, for years on end. Quite simply I'm a software engineer today because I was bored out of my mind when I was 10 years old. There were only 3 TV channels (USSR), only about 30 minutes of children's programming a day, and no internet, let alone smartphones or Instagram. If there was all that, I'd be literally cleaning pig shit between dopamine hits from my smartphone.