Re:Instagram Is Facebook Now
by grepfru_it on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:47PM
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It's television for the current generation. I've noticed my parents and inlaws cannot exist without having the television on. I mean they can, but pick a random day, show up at their house and the TV is on some show that they are remotely interested in but watching because they had nothing else to do. That's instagram/facebook/snapchat/etc.
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Re:Instagram Is Facebook Now
by datavirtue on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:59PM
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I have always had stuff to do. This sounds like mental torture.
That this thread includes a couple of comments like this is really interesting.
It shows that HN is a very particular sample of the population.
Re:Instagram Is Facebook Now
by freeflight on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:32PM
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I consider it like white noise, having something running in the background somehow helps me better focus on what's in-front of me.
In a way it's also a bit of a social substitute; When you live alone, and spend a lot of time alone, it can be nice to just listen to some human voices in the background as if you were not alone.
Re:Instagram Is Facebook Now
by Apocryphon on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:49PM
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As a civilization we've had this for over a decade now, surely this was what radio was like before television.