Pandemic really ramped it up. Also screen addiction has gone mainstream. In front of a screen 12+ hours a day 20 years ago? Total nerd. Now? Standard behavior.

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asdfman123 a day ago | parent | next [-]

It's so weird. I used to consider myself a fringe internet addict in the 2000s but now everyone is like me.

Like many of you, I deal with stuff like depression, anxiety, ADHD. Back in the 2000s it felt like I was the only weirdo out there. Now I cringe writing that out because it feels like everyone is like that now.

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sefrost a day ago | parent [-]

Everybody isn't like that. "The algorithm" might have made you think everybody is like that though.

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asdfman123 a day ago | parent [-]

Meet a lot of Gen Zers. Far too many of them are.

	▲	rescbr 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, maybe that’s why I’m more empathetic towards them compared to my fellow millennials?

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stackbutterflow a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I made the same observation recently.

I think people under 25 probably don't even know how absolutely uncool it was to tell people you stayed at home in front of a computer on weekends or after school.

Absolute pariah behavior on the scale of coolness. But now ? Totally normal.

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queenkjuul a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I started to notice a shift in how the recommendation algorithms worked probably around 2018-2019 and then the pandemic just took it to nuclear levels against the entire population

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XorNot a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Okay but what should people be doing instead?

The complaint that everyone is on their phone (or in front of screens) is less informative then the interlocutors ideas of what should be instead.