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Weirdly, Instagram never hooked me. I guess I only followed people that didn't post, ha ha. As per boredom (I'm 60, so, yeah, grew up without smart phones), be

Weirdly, Instagram never hooked me. I guess I only followed people that didn't post, ha ha. As per boredom (I'm 60, so, yeah, grew up without smart phones), best thing that can happen to your creativity. All my good ideas come from stretches of boredom (driving long distances for example). I love boredom. When computers came firmly into my life, it was solitaire games I had to actively delete from my machine. So many wasted hours (I thought). Note: we 60 year olds wasted plenty of time watching shit television content long before smart phones (and computer solitaire) came to be. I have only just slightly made a little peace with this time-wasting habit. I've come to see that there is time of decompression that I sort of seem to need in the evening. As I say, it used to be TV where I would find solace in "vegging out". Lately it's YouTube. Perhaps we can accept this but find better ways to veg out? I personally think YouTube is superior to the crap TV (and, god, commercials) of old. But drumming, playing guitar, reading ... these are better still.

kibibu 1y ago
Instagram Reels shows you stuff that it thinks you'll like, not just from people you follow.
subpixel 1y ago
I didn't get snared by Instagram until I began to use it deliberately, _searching_ for things. In my case when I moved to a new part of the country, I found it super useful to look up places and things on Instagram by name, location, or tag. Instagram (and YouTube) have engineered their search experiences to be as distracting as possible and to provoke the user into abandoning their search and to follow suggested content. I can't tell you how many times I set out to find something and literally forget what that intention was, after being induced to click on the tantalizing promise of some other image or video thumbnail.

kibibu 1y ago

Instagram Reels shows you stuff that it thinks you'll like, not just from people you follow.

subpixel 1y ago

I didn't get snared by Instagram until I began to use it deliberately, _searching_ for things. In my case when I moved to a new part of the country, I found it super useful to look up places and things on Instagram by name, location, or tag. Instagram (and YouTube) have engineered their search experiences to be as distracting as possible and to provoke the user into abandoning their search and to follow suggested content. I can't tell you how many times I set out to find something and literally forget what that intention was, after being induced to click on the tantalizing promise of some other image or video thumbnail.