The quality of movies and TV shows is also gone to shit. I blame no one for not being able to pay attention to the absolute crap airing on TV nowadays.
I think its very different, because the algorithms are feeding you things you emotionally react to. Also i bet it changes your entire view of things very much. You dont have things like gender wars on tv very much, but its all over social media. I think it affects how young people think more than anything. Much more than tv.
You can look at the Lemmy front page also and see common themes, and over time, all this affects how young people think about themselves, politics, sex, anything really.
I dont think tv is even remotely affecting people in the same way as social media... Specially when you are young, it can affect you extreamly much. Because that need to fit in is super strong.
I grew up in the 90s and I was watching tv, so I know it didnt affect me at all as much as todays social media. But thats me, just one person. Perhaps its not the same for everyone, so this is just my opinion.
Yeah I don’t know what the algorithm pushes on others but I definitely see more conservative propaganda than I like…… I’ve even started seeing shite like parasites causing diabetes and other insane health conspiracy theories
I suppose all the dating and gender role nonsense is most likely of the stuff pushed on me to affect someone, because it’s widespread, not too extreme, and starts with a grain of truth before heading off the rails
You can quickly try on YouTube - search for something like miami vice and watch a few seconds of a video. Then go back to your feed. Observe how it now has lots of related content.
These days it takes just seconds for the entire feed to change to your choices. So even if you are just a little curious about something, like flat earth, you will start to get that kind of content within seconds. So people get pulled into filter bubbles without even noticing.
Don't forget about chronic diseases that keep people in bed all day.
Especially chronic gut diseases which have been skyrocketing and appear to be related to PFAs "forever chemicals" (that the USA recently decided to stop regulating )
not just gen z. that's like every second or third day for me when my skeleton is like "fuck you old man, if you wanted to move now you shouldn't have been a tradesman"
I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It'll get anyone that spends long enough online.
Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I've got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.
Gen X here. Can concur. But I'm also an athlete so I only spend 50% of my time bed rotting. 50% of my life climbing, jumping, running, swimming, hiking, skydiving, I'd say I'm pretty well balanced but bed rotting is a true recovery strategy laying flat on my back with legs propped up for days.
Your comment makes me feel unaccountably old, even though I'm fairly sure that's not a thing. Well, moderately sure. Somewhat sure. I'm not sure I could handle seeing the news twice!
Nearby is one thing, but "bed rotting" involves lying in bed staring at your phone, typically mindlessly consuming media of some sort, and not getting up or sleeping. The post is ambiguous though, so if you were deliberately musunderstanding, then I apologise for misunderstanding your misunderstanding!
64 Comments
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 83 pts · 148d
Back in my day, we just rotted in bed ruminating on negative thoughts. We didn't have no memes, except what was in our imaginations!
Triumph@fedia.io · 28 pts · 148d
We imagined our own memes, and we liked it.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 148d
Did you though?
Triumph@fedia.io · 11 pts · 148d
Shower thoughts are imagined memes.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 146d
Yes, but did you actually like them?
Triumph@fedia.io · 1 pts · 146d
I said we liked imagining, not that we liked what we imagined.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 5 pts · 147d
You call it "imagining memes"; I call it "fantasizing while masturbating"
We are probably the same
frog@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 147d
I had my Gameboy with the little swivel light.
dumbass@piefed.social · 60 pts · 148d
Man, I'm a fucking trend setter.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 147d
This really isn't that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 147d
It is and isn't. I think that TV, as a longer-form of entertainment, has less harmful effects on attention-span, for example.
Hearing kids talk about not being able to focus long enough to watch a movie or tv show is a bummer.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 147d
Though that's not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d
Yeah you can bedrot and watch youtube (long videos) or a movie instead of short form media.
jnod4@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 147d
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 147d
The quality of movies and TV shows is also gone to shit. I blame no one for not being able to pay attention to the absolute crap airing on TV nowadays.
1984@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 147d
I think its very different, because the algorithms are feeding you things you emotionally react to. Also i bet it changes your entire view of things very much. You dont have things like gender wars on tv very much, but its all over social media. I think it affects how young people think more than anything. Much more than tv.
You can look at the Lemmy front page also and see common themes, and over time, all this affects how young people think about themselves, politics, sex, anything really.
I dont think tv is even remotely affecting people in the same way as social media... Specially when you are young, it can affect you extreamly much. Because that need to fit in is super strong.
I grew up in the 90s and I was watching tv, so I know it didnt affect me at all as much as todays social media. But thats me, just one person. Perhaps its not the same for everyone, so this is just my opinion.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
Yeah I don’t know what the algorithm pushes on others but I definitely see more conservative propaganda than I like…… I’ve even started seeing shite like parasites causing diabetes and other insane health conspiracy theories
I suppose all the dating and gender role nonsense is most likely of the stuff pushed on me to affect someone, because it’s widespread, not too extreme, and starts with a grain of truth before heading off the rails
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 145d
You can quickly try on YouTube - search for something like miami vice and watch a few seconds of a video. Then go back to your feed. Observe how it now has lots of related content.
These days it takes just seconds for the entire feed to change to your choices. So even if you are just a little curious about something, like flat earth, you will start to get that kind of content within seconds. So people get pulled into filter bubbles without even noticing.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 147d
So, likely major depressive disorder? I’m not surprised. The future looks bleak.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 11 pts · 147d
Don't forget about chronic diseases that keep people in bed all day.
Especially chronic gut diseases which have been skyrocketing and appear to be related to PFAs "forever chemicals" (that the USA recently decided to stop regulating )
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 147d
Not do downplay the almost 100% increase over 30 years, but that chart is a bit misleading, with the vertical axis not starting at 0
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 148d
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps "armchair rot" so as to mitigate back problems.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 148d
Nah, I'm officerotting. Probably the only thing I've managed to do so far today is contribute to Lemmy network effect :P
village604@adultswim.fan · 13 pts · 148d
My life in Infosec. It's super boring until suddenly it's not.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 7 pts · 147d
This is why I play Nethack.
Turn-based. Fully interruptible.
ASCII-based. Fully playable in an 80x24 ssh tty that nobody will notice and take approximately no bandwidth.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 147d
Oh, no one else at work cares. The CSIO will come up with excuses for us to bring up a gaming console to "test firewall access"
Slotos@feddit.nl · 34 pts · 148d
Kids the days… are entirely relatable.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 147d
Apparently I've been 20 years ahead of the curve. I didn't call it bed rotting (ew) I called it "fucking depressed leave me alone"
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
You're such a hipster, I just call it being alive
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 28 pts · 147d
So what do you call it when older people do it, but the screen is further away (TV)?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 147d
Couch potato.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 148d
Why isn't GenZ participating in our accelerated hellscape?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 148d
GenZ are killing the Mr Bones Wild Ride industry
Karl@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 147d
Genz is trying to what?
BlackVenom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d
KILLING ME BONES' WILD RIDE INDUSTRY.
A la... Gen Z wants off.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 27 pts · 148d
Isn't this just called having a lazy morning?
Like you wake up but don't feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?
As long as you're not doing that for ages every single day, I'd say it's fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 147d
I’m pretty sure they are talking about doing this all day. It’s just a new name for major depressive disorder.
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Oooooo I have that one!
theneverfox@pawb.social · 3 pts · 147d
No, they will get up and then go back to lay on their bed and scroll for hours
E_coli42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
I just go back to sleep lol. If I'm too lazy to get up, I'm usually too lazy to go on my phone.
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev · 22 pts · 147d
"Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous" - the perennial headline
hOrni@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 148d
Throw in a couple of beers and that's a perfect day.
Zozano@aussie.zone · 23 pts · 148d
You fucking psycho.
Think of how many times you'll need to get out of bed to piss.
(This comment brought to you by shots of vodka)
ickplant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d
I read “beers” as “bees” and was really confused. Although a few bees wouldn’t hurt as long as you don’t antagonize them.
NullPointerException@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 148d
Isn’t that what they referred to as couch potatoes in boomer time?
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 148d
Pretty much. Same shit, different corn.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 147d
not just gen z. that's like every second or third day for me when my skeleton is like "fuck you old man, if you wanted to move now you shouldn't have been a tradesman"
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 147d
And 20 years ago it was books, magazines, newspaper, gameboys, etc. Nothing has changed.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 3 pts · 147d
yes, we had to keep a physical collection hidden under the bed
Agent641@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 147d
Bedmaxxing restpilled youth
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 147d
I've done the same with books, so...
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 148d
I remember when social media was going to brain-rot the kids, it ended up brain-rotting the boomers.
This is going to be the same, this is the braindead for the boomers.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 11 pts · 148d
I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It'll get anyone that spends long enough online.
Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I've got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.
MBM@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 147d
Comments like this are always a good reminder to get off Lemmy and do stuff I actually like
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 148d
I used to do it with a PC next to my bed. Scroll-wheel mouse was the tits.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d
Gen X here. Can concur. But I'm also an athlete so I only spend 50% of my time bed rotting. 50% of my life climbing, jumping, running, swimming, hiking, skydiving, I'd say I'm pretty well balanced but bed rotting is a true recovery strategy laying flat on my back with legs propped up for days.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 148d
Yes we did it before, but with a cool name we do it more!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d
That Genz dude is so pathetic!
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
That's called addiction.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 2 pts · 148d
That's the !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone lifestyle!
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 146d
Laid off... no money... no means... what the fuck do they expect? Going to Disneyland?
username_1@programming.dev · -3 pts · 148d
notabot@piefed.social · 6 pts · 148d
Sleeping...with a phone?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 148d
It's called sleep scrolling, get on with the times.
notabot@piefed.social · 1 pts · 148d
Your comment makes me feel unaccountably old, even though I'm fairly sure that's not a thing. Well, moderately sure. Somewhat sure. I'm not sure I could handle seeing the news twice!
username_1@programming.dev · 1 pts · 148d
notabot@piefed.social · 2 pts · 148d
Nearby is one thing, but "bed rotting" involves lying in bed staring at your phone, typically mindlessly consuming media of some sort, and not getting up or sleeping. The post is ambiguous though, so if you were deliberately musunderstanding, then I apologise for misunderstanding your misunderstanding!