Every generation has its own vilified time waster. Can I truthfully say that time spent on TikTok is worse than the 4+ hours a day I spent playing Skyrim in 2011?

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GPerson 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’d bet it is. Playing Skyrim involves a least some thinking from the player. Have you ever succumbed to a scrolling binge? It’s honestly painful. You just sit there for many hours in a row not feeling fulfilled by anything.

A better comparison in my opinion is to television of the 80s-90s. Though I do think longer form content is better for you.

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teekert 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or reading comics/watching TV in the 80s?

	▲	GPerson 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The average viewer only actually watches something like 10 seconds of every video. It’s not like in comics or TV where you actually follow a story, though tv binges did feel to me similar to scrolling short form content. The latter led to binging every time I used it and tv did not, however.