<story><title>YouTube addiction, one month sober</title><url>https://www.sophiajt.com/youtube-addiction-one-month-sober/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>futureshock</author><text>It’s bit weird, but I feel like this conversation about screen time and digital addiction dropped out of the public consciousness during Covid, never to return. Apple released their screen time features in 2018, so this issue was just starting to hit critical mass right as Covid hit and dumped us all deep down the digital rabbit hole.&lt;p&gt;Now I notice even more social proof to keep going deeper into the digital life. Public shaming over green chat bubbles and genuine confusion if I tell someone I’m on not on a Meta owned social network.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we’re all so addicted now that it’s no longer social acceptable to talk about our addiction. I wonder if we just started talking to each other less as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winternett</author><text>It feels like I haven&amp;#x27;t logged onto it in ages... Chrome pushed an update that made me have to log in and do TFA  each time I opened the browser, and that was a nail in the coffin.&lt;p&gt;The best content on YouTube is berried behind a wall of Mr Beast and Pewdie Pie style fluffery that I can&amp;#x27;t find any real value in most of the time. They dictate what is favorable, and that ruins the entire experience for me. The search has been flooded with SEO title spam, which makes finding specific content damn near impossible and&amp;#x2F;or very tedious.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think you can be addicted to a hammer if it&amp;#x27;s a highly functional tool in getting work done. I don&amp;#x27;t think you can get addicted to a television if it&amp;#x27;s a tool used for relaxation or entertainment. I think we need to stop considering that apps become addictive, and really speak on if they manage to deliver on their promises and functional purposes.... Just my opinion.&lt;p&gt;Most apps become extremely annoying after years of being highly functional, and that represents corporate corruption more so than having an addictive product. It&amp;#x27;s not addicting if it does not fulfill a valid purpose when it begins to charge money for ad laced content or repeatedly waste people&amp;#x27;s time, apps cease to be useful after that point.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube addiction, one month sober</title><url>https://www.sophiajt.com/youtube-addiction-one-month-sober/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>futureshock</author><text>It’s bit weird, but I feel like this conversation about screen time and digital addiction dropped out of the public consciousness during Covid, never to return. Apple released their screen time features in 2018, so this issue was just starting to hit critical mass right as Covid hit and dumped us all deep down the digital rabbit hole.&lt;p&gt;Now I notice even more social proof to keep going deeper into the digital life. Public shaming over green chat bubbles and genuine confusion if I tell someone I’m on not on a Meta owned social network.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we’re all so addicted now that it’s no longer social acceptable to talk about our addiction. I wonder if we just started talking to each other less as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DougN7</author><text>The casino scene in the Percy Jackson movie [1] (and book) have always seemed hauntingly accurate to me as far as describing much of modern life.&lt;p&gt;The thing we all have a finite amount of is time, and we’re increasingly distracted to where we waste more and more of it on unimportant, artificial digital worlds&amp;#x2F;life while the real world passes by.  As I’m getting older, I’m seeing how precious youth, energy, and health are, but those who have the most of that (younger people) seem to be sucked in even more.  We’re racing towards the dystopia shown in the movie Ready Player One.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p9-Fbl2QVJc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p9-Fbl2QVJc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>