Re:Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
by AlchemistCamp on Saturday July 20, 2019 @01:24AM
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YouTube is actually the one major social media network that has a more positive than negative psychological effect:
https://www.psychalive.org/worst-mental-health-instagram-fac...
Re:Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
by muzani on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:12AM
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It depends a lot on the person. I don't get distracted at all by anything on YouTube; it's about as entertaining as a library to me. Same with something like TvTropes. My distraction channels are forums like Reddit and FB.
Different people have different closed loops.
0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 youtube.com
0.0.0.0 googlevideo.com
0.0.0.0 ytimg.l.google.com
0.0.0.0 ytimg.com
0.0.0.0 youtube-ui.l.google.com
0.0.0.0 ytstatic.l.google.com
0.0.0.0 youtubei.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 youtu.be
0.0.0.0 l.google.com
0.0.0.0 m.youtube.com
If someone sends me something, I'll watch it on my phone and I have a timer to limit YouTube on my phone to half an hour a day. My mental health has improved dramatically as a result.