Not Lemmy. Not Reddit.
Recently I watched a guy in a movie theater before the movie started fiddling with his phone. In rapid fire, he was scrolling Instagram, liking things and stopping on hot ladies. Switch over to facebook and quick scroll that. Send a link to a friend. Then doomscroll reddit.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
(Sam Elliott voice) He too is god’s handiwork.
Me:
- Open Maps
- Stare at it
- Mentally think to my self this is my life now (say, I’m waiting at an appointment for something)
- Press home buttom
- Open App list
- Scroll up and down
- To back to home page
- STARE at it, pretending I’m busy doing something
- Oh shit maybe I should actually do something
- Realize I actually haven’t taken the time to download anything beforehand
- Downloads Lichess
- Actually I wanna just browse wikipedia
- Find an article for what stuff I have on my mind
- STARE at it, pretending I’m reading an ebook
- Actually I can’t focus, home screen again
- Opens the notes app
-
- blank note
- Hmm okay lets write a poem… how am I feeling right now…
- Writes 1-2 line…
- Fuck I can’t think of anything else… my head hurts…
- Press homescreen
- Stare at it for 10 seconds
- Turn it off
- Spin the phone around like a fidget spinner
- Bored af
Lichess best chess
https://lichess.org/ is great even on a computer, not just on a phone. I don’t play on my phone, but I do like to play from time to time on lichess :)
Neurodivergent? I am lol and this resonates. I write a lot more now that I have an ereader (that can also be a notebook!) I get it out rather than my phone sometimes and there’s less distraction on it. It’s either read, write or browse the bookstore 😅
I think you have ADHD, right?
Officially, no. I only have Depression and Anxiety.
Sorry to hear that, friend. ❤️
Reminds me of the days I wasted my whole afternoons on Wikipedia while at work.
Most normal people? Instagram, tiktok, facebook. Maybe twitter.
Yeah I used to go on the reddit app and now its just fb and insta
Open phone. See if new email. Check here. Check YouTube subs. Adds up to less than an hour a day. Unless I feel like sudoku. Thats my time sink.
Normal people scroll social media. Instagram. Maybe buy something the ad tells them they need. Then send messages or videos to friends and chats. That’s about it.
I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl on my phone.
Short form videos and social media?
They ask about normal people and Lemmings mostly answer about themselves. 🤦♂️
So, normal Lemmings?
This is a oxymoron. Lemmy is not mainstream media.
Normal is a baseline for a system. The average Lemming is an outlier by the fact that they are using Lemmy.
Exactly! Lemmings are very tech literate on average. And have different usage patterns than the average phone user.
Is anybody truly “normal?” Whenever I pick up my phone to waste time, I bounce between:
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YouTube
Email
Excel spreadsheets
Amazon shopping app
VA app for appointment reminders, medical records, messaging with my doctors
Add a bunch of app to look for home properties or fishing spots and that’s me as well. Maybe add kindle app if I forgot the device home.
YouTube. Also that stupid mobile Pokémon card game for like 3 minutes, twice a day.
Many seem to watch short vertical videos of people talking to the camera about stuff I couldn’t care less about.
Before I had an existential crisis and lost my damn mind it was instagram, discord, and snapchat (literally for 2 people). Now it’s just Lemmy.
I’m sorry if your friends hurt you. Me too. That’s why I prefer to have conversations with anonymous strangers. I’m done with real people.
It wasn’t their fault. They didn’t hurt me, I did.
my wife: short-form video (mostly insta reels, I think).
me: language learning app or ebook.
i don’t do anything on my phone. it’s a flip phone with data and wifi disabled on the device, and sms disabled at the carrier. it’s quite literally just a ‘telephone’.
if i go somewhere where i might expect a long wait alone (like to a doctor’s appointment), i’ll take a paperback with me.
They waste hours scrolling too but instead it’s billionaire tuned brainrot machines and a handful of predatory games but also Wordle. Holy shit do they love Wordle.
- Researching the next project.
- Watching way too much news about American and world politics, I’m getting a bit tired after two years with flooded zone.
- Audiobooks and podcasts.
