I'm Done with Social Media

Re:I'm Done with Social Media by card_zero on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:34PM (#44534929)

Hey, it's OK to use the fast forward button. Just because you want to hear Back in the USSR and While My Guitar Gently Weeps doesn't mean you have to sit through Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, it's not good for you like eating your vegetables. And it's not good to let things bore you, you're mixing up being bored with being patient, the distinction matters.

Edit: but if you have actual OCD as you say below, that puts a different slant on things.

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Re:I'm Done with Social Media by jackdoe on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:47PM (#44535070)

I do use fast forward :) just not a lot, but also really like cassettes that two good songs happen to be on the opposite sides of each other.

I am using 'bored' quite loosely, I mean allow yourself to not be constantly engaged, the content creators, the algorithms, the advertisers all are trying to keep me at this extreme state so that I could be sold. The bar is really high, in order to be patient I had to re-learn how to not be engaged all the time. Some times I think of nothing, but most of the time I am having fun with stuff either real or not.

PS: yea I do have ocd, my bored or patient probably mean different things to other people

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