“Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous” - the perennial headline
This really isn’t that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
It is and isn’t. I think that TV, as a longer-form of entertainment, has less harmful effects on attention-span, for example.
Hearing kids talk about not being able to focus long enough to watch a movie or tv show is a bummer.
Though that’s not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
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So what do you call it when older people do it, but the screen is further away (TV)?
Couch potato.
So, likely major depressive disorder? I’m not surprised. The future looks bleak.
Don’t forget about chronic diseases that keep people in bed all day.
Especially chronic gut diseases which have been skyrocketing and appear to be related to PFAs “forever chemicals” (that the USA recently decided to stop regulating )
not just gen z. that’s like every second or third day for me when my skeleton is like “fuck you old man, if you wanted to move now you shouldn’t have been a tradesman”
Apparently I’ve been 20 years ahead of the curve. I didn’t call it bed rotting (ew) I called it “fucking depressed leave me alone”
You’re such a hipster, I just call it being alive
And 20 years ago it was books, magazines, newspaper, gameboys, etc. Nothing has changed.
magazines
yes, we had to keep a physical collection hidden under the bed
Why isn’t GenZ participating in our accelerated hellscape?
GenZ are killing the Mr Bones Wild Ride industry
Genz is trying to what?
KILLING ME BONES’ WILD RIDE INDUSTRY.
A la… Gen Z wants off.
Man, I’m a fucking trend setter.
Back in my day, we just rotted in bed ruminating on negative thoughts. We didn’t have no memes, except what was in our imaginations!
We imagined our own memes, and we liked it.
You call it “imagining memes”; I call it “fantasizing while masturbating”
We are probably the same
Did you though?
Shower thoughts are imagined memes.
Isn’t this just called having a lazy morning?
Like you wake up but don’t feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?
As long as you’re not doing that for ages every single day, I’d say it’s fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.
I’m pretty sure they are talking about doing this all day. It’s just a new name for major depressive disorder.
No, they will get up and then go back to lay on their bed and scroll for hours
I just go back to sleep lol. If I’m too lazy to get up, I’m usually too lazy to go on my phone.
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps “armchair rot” so as to mitigate back problems.
Nah, I’m officerotting. Probably the only thing I’ve managed to do so far today is contribute to Lemmy network effect :P
My life in Infosec. It’s super boring until suddenly it’s not.
This is why I play Nethack.
Turn-based. Fully interruptible.
ASCII-based. Fully playable in an 80x24 ssh tty that nobody will notice and take approximately no bandwidth.
Kids the days… are entirely relatable.
Isn’t that what they referred to as couch potatoes in boomer time?
Pretty much. Same shit, different corn.
