I’ve done the same with books, so…
Gen X here. Can concur. But I’m also an athlete so I only spend 50% of my time bed rotting. 50% of my life climbing, jumping, running, swimming, hiking, skydiving, I’d say I’m pretty well balanced but bed rotting is a true recovery strategy laying flat on my back with legs propped up for days.
That’s called addiction.
“Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous” - the perennial headline
Bedmaxxing restpilled youth
This really isn’t that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
I think its very different, because the algorithms are feeding you things you emotionally react to. Also i bet it changes your entire view of things very much. You dont have things like gender wars on tv very much, but its all over social media. I think it affects how young people think more than anything. Much more than tv.
You can look at the Lemmy front page also and see common themes, and over time, all this affects how young people think about themselves, politics, sex, anything really.
I dont think tv is even remotely affecting people in the same way as social media… Specially when you are young, it can affect you extreamly much. Because that need to fit in is super strong.
I grew up in the 90s and I was watching tv, so I know it didnt affect me at all as much as todays social media. But thats me, just one person. Perhaps its not the same for everyone, so this is just my opinion.
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.
The quality of movies and TV shows is also gone to shit. I blame no one for not being able to pay attention to the absolute crap airing on TV nowadays.
Though that’s not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
Yeah you can bedrot and watch youtube (long videos) or a movie instead of short form media.
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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 do downplay the almost 100% increase over 30 years, but that chart is a bit misleading, with the vertical axis not starting at 0
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!
I had my Gameboy with the little swivel light.
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.
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
Man, I’m a fucking trend setter.
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”
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.
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps “armchair rot” so as to mitigate back problems.
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.
