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Has anyone else noticed smartphones have got significantly more addictive recently (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've noticed YouTube specifically has become more addictive, I never used to be one to sit and scroll for long durations before but I often catch myself spending way too long on shorts now

Even people or older generations seem to be getting sucked in nowadays

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[–] Lmaydev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I just avoid shorts or reels or whatever personally. They're short and engaging making it easy to lose track of time.

But yeah you're 100% right my parents (late 50s) have started doing it a lot. I've noticed a lot of teenagers do as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

My wife's attention span has gone to shit thanks to short form videos like that. From vine to ticktock to whatever Facebook version she uses now, I've gotten to the point where if she picks up her phone while we're talking, I'll just stop talking until she looks up. If we're whatching a new movie or show, I'll pause it until she puts the phone down.

Sometimes it takes her several minutes to realize what she's doing.

I'm so fucking tired of having to pause things to explain what we just watched because she was too busy watching some asshole drop a glass of milk onto the floor for a joke. I'm tired of having to repeat myself because she "needed stimulation" and decided the conversation we ~~are~~ were actively having isn't good enough.

So now I just don't bother. If she's interested, she'll ask. If it's important, I'll tell her to put the phone down because it's important.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Me too. I've seen my partner on them and it's like a really bad version of tiktok only you don't get to train the algorithm properly. No thanks.