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[themitigating]

Why is that a problem? What about video games or TV?

What useful things are you talking about and is their evidence of their decline?

[__MatrixMan__ → themitigating]

Well here I am on HN, so I'm in a bit of a relapse, but personally I've noticed that not being on social media correlates with:

- talking with strangers at the grocery store

- working on my novel

- building things in my garage

- antagonizing institutions that I think have crossed a line

And those things are meaningful to me in ways that being on social media is not.

As for whether such activities trickle up into some kind of high level aggregate good, I don't know, but it's not hard to guess at how they might.

[tayo42 → themitigating]

TV being a problem was talked to death for years. Now the attention is on streaming binges on Netflix. Not everyone likes or plays video games it doesn't have the same mass appeal