“Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous” - the perennial headline
Man, I’m a fucking trend setter.
Throw in a couple of beers and that’s a perfect day.
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)
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!
We imagined our own memes, and we liked it.
You call it “imagining memes”; I call it “fantasizing while masturbating”
We are probably the same
Did you though?
Shower thoughts are imagined memes.
Yes, but did you actually like them?
I had my Gameboy with the little swivel light.
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps “armchair rot” so as to mitigate back problems.
Kids the days… are entirely relatable.
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”
You’re such a hipster, I just call it being alive
And 20 years ago it was books, magazines, newspaper, gameboys, etc. Nothing has changed.
magazines
yes, we had to keep a physical collection hidden under the bed
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”
So what do you call it when older people do it, but the screen is further away (TV)?
Couch potato.
This really isn’t that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
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
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.
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.
Though that’s not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
Yeah you can bedrot and watch youtube (long videos) or a movie instead of short form media.
Nah, I’m officerotting. Probably the only thing I’ve managed to do so far today is contribute to Lemmy network effect :P
My life in Infosec. It’s super boring until suddenly it’s not.
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.
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”
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Sleeping…with a phone?
It’s called sleep scrolling, get on with the times.
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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!
That Genz dude is so pathetic!
Yes we did it before, but with a cool name we do it more!
