Not Lemmy. Not Reddit.
Any short form media tiktok, reels, youtube shorts
How the fuck is anyone here supposed to answer that? There’s nobody normal here!
It is important that we observe humanity, that we may less noticeably walk in the midst of it. By comparing notes, we maximize our observations.
The way normal works, if everyone here on lemmy does something one way, then that becomes the normal. There’s no universal normal, because normal is always relative to context. The broader the context, then the wider and more diverse the normal becomes.
Or as my statistics professor liked to say “normal is a curve, get over it”.
Recently I watched a guy in a movie theater before the movie started fiddling with his phone. In rapid fire, he was scrolling Instagram, liking things and stopping on hot ladies. Switch over to facebook and quick scroll that. Send a link to a friend. Then doomscroll reddit.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
(Sam Elliott voice) He too is god’s handiwork.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
wait…is this not how the internet is supposed to work?
I’m not normal, but I’m guessing some mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. But, maybe there’s more casino / gatcha games, too.
Is anybody truly “normal?” Whenever I pick up my phone to waste time, I bounce between:
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YouTube
Email
Excel spreadsheets
Amazon shopping app
VA app for appointment reminders, medical records, messaging with my doctors
Add a bunch of app to look for home properties or fishing spots and that’s me as well. Maybe add kindle app if I forgot the device home.
Normal people scroll social media. Instagram. Maybe buy something the ad tells them they need. Then send messages or videos to friends and chats. That’s about it.
I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl on my phone.
Read articles I’ve saved to my self hosted readeck.
Oh you said normal people …
Short form videos and social media?
Many seem to watch short vertical videos of people talking to the camera about stuff I couldn’t care less about.
I “Study”
I watch Tiktok or Youtube on skills I want to learn.
Cooking (mostly foreign or asian) or Nails, colors, tehcniques, etc.
Panem et circenses.
Mostly tumblr, Lemmy, reddit, and occasionally Wikipedia for me. Most people I know would be on Instagram, but I can’t stand it.
I have an ebook reader and I download epubs. I also have an audio book player so it looks like im working.
They waste hours scrolling too but instead it’s billionaire tuned brainrot machines and a handful of predatory games but also Wordle. Holy shit do they love Wordle.
i don’t do anything on my phone. it’s a flip phone with data and wifi disabled on the device, and sms disabled at the carrier. it’s quite literally just a ‘telephone’.
if i go somewhere where i might expect a long wait alone (like to a doctor’s appointment), i’ll take a paperback with me.
