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Serious Q, what are most people doing with their phones so much? Social media? Work? Watching rando YT vids? My wife's vice seems to FB, but unsure if that'
by silisili 2y ago
Serious Q, what are most people doing with their phones so much? Social media? Work? Watching rando YT vids?
My wife's vice seems to FB, but unsure if that's what everyone else is doing.
- netsharc 2y agoProbably any of the above except work? It's indeed a tool for any kind of distraction you want/whichever road you take (i.e. whichever app you open) you'll find said distraction. HN counts too. (Ironically I'm typing this as I sit on the toilet.).
- therealdrag0 2y agoI check work slack a lot tbh.
- silisili 2y agoI agree on HN, though I think it's markedly different as it moves slow enough that you can just check it once or twice a day and get most everything you want. Whereas a lot of other social media is an unlimited feed of everything, ephemerally, and can make you feel like that if you blink, you'll have missed something. I do check HN from my phone, typically in the mornings and night when I have downtime and don't want to watch TV or read a book. But I can't say I've ever been at a park, bar, or airport lounge and just itching to see what was going on HN this second.
- runjake 2y agoNot scientific, but when I snoop, I most often see the thumb scrolling and various incarnations of the video shorts apps like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram, and Snapchat.
- pupppet 2y agoDoomscrolling and making myself miserable.