Social media is like TV zapping, just... probably more addicting because you're likelier to find something mildly interesting (to you). It's also described as j

Social media is like TV zapping, just... probably more addicting because you're likelier to find something mildly interesting (to you). It's also described as junk food for the brain. Don't go there, instead spend time in the weird and fun niches, which are probably just fine still! (Note, even back then they had people who were wrong on the internet.) If you use Social Media sites sometimes, I recommend at least getting rid of "recommendations"/"sponsored" boxes. To see what that looks like e.g. on Twitter without installing an extension and keeping it up-to-date (cause Twitter keeps changing their stuff), you can try a bookmarklet like this: (javascript:document.querySelectorAll('div[aria-label="Trending"]').forEach(function(v) { v.remove() })) Not all is worse in this decade though. If you're actually looking to learn stuff that involves e.g. physically building stuff (rather than just doing stuff on your computer), YouTube et al. have improved that by a lot! (Of course, this kind of content can be addicting too. But at least you learn a thing or two!) Note: the YouTube of the 00s was very low-resolution and the comments often were really bad! (https://xkcd.com/202/ https://xkcd.com/202/)