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> TikTok, Instagram Shorts, YouTube Reels Just don't install these apps? There are tons of useful apps that don't require your constant attention.
by yyx 1y ago
> TikTok, Instagram Shorts, YouTube Reels
Just don't install these apps? There are tons of useful apps that don't require your constant attention.
- puttycat 1y agoThe OP correctly mentions that we're dealing with real addiction here. Telling an addict to "just not do it" is futile.
- sceptic123 1y agoBut not installing/using or blocking those apps is as much of an alternative as using a dumb phone.
- const_cast 1y agoSure, in the same was as "eat less" is a viable alternative for the obesity epidemic. But it's not a solution. Obviously, that just won't work for people who have a propensity to over-consume, or people who have a propensity to scroll in this case. If it were that easy, then everyone would do it. Then we'd all hold hands and sing Kumbaya.
- yyx 1y agoDamn, I guess I skimmed the article with my short attention span :). He's right, but the title is clickbaity.
- teekert 1y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh1ft2g9OM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh1ft2g9OM
- card_zero 1y agoWhere does the unattributed, axis-doesn't-start-at-zero chart of declining attention span come from? It looks like there were five sample years since 2000, but who was sampled, and "attention span" was measured how? "As the chart shows, attention spans are plummeting" is not very impressive when the chart is just a line that goes down and some mysterious times in seconds. Tineye had nothing.
- jiehong 1y agoMaybe give parental control to a friend for your phone so you’re limited in what can be done. Or maybe companies could provide a lock down mode that you can’t change for 1 year at a time, like a locked bank account or something.
- huksley 1y agoBut how I will post to reels and stories how great my life is
- sceptic123 1y agoJust start a blog instead