Man, I’m a fucking trend setter.
This really isn’t that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
It is and isn’t. I think that TV, as a longer-form of entertainment, has less harmful effects on attention-span, for example.
Hearing kids talk about not being able to focus long enough to watch a movie or tv show is a bummer.
Though that’s not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
Yeah you can bedrot and watch youtube (long videos) or a movie instead of short form media.
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The quality of movies and TV shows is also gone to shit. I blame no one for not being able to pay attention to the absolute crap airing on TV nowadays.
So, likely major depressive disorder? I’m not surprised. The future looks bleak.
Don’t forget about chronic diseases that keep people in bed all day.
Especially chronic gut diseases which have been skyrocketing and appear to be related to PFAs “forever chemicals” (that the USA recently decided to stop regulating )
Not do downplay the almost 100% increase over 30 years, but that chart is a bit misleading, with the vertical axis not starting at 0
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps “armchair rot” so as to mitigate back problems.
Nah, I’m officerotting. Probably the only thing I’ve managed to do so far today is contribute to Lemmy network effect :P
My life in Infosec. It’s super boring until suddenly it’s not.
This is why I play Nethack.
Turn-based. Fully interruptible.
ASCII-based. Fully playable in an 80x24 ssh tty that nobody will notice and take approximately no bandwidth.
Oh, no one else at work cares. The CSIO will come up with excuses for us to bring up a gaming console to “test firewall access”
Kids the days… are entirely relatable.
So what do you call it when older people do it, but the screen is further away (TV)?
Couch potato.
Apparently I’ve been 20 years ahead of the curve. I didn’t call it bed rotting (ew) I called it “fucking depressed leave me alone”
You’re such a hipster, I just call it being alive
Why isn’t GenZ participating in our accelerated hellscape?
GenZ are killing the Mr Bones Wild Ride industry
Genz is trying to what?
KILLING ME BONES’ WILD RIDE INDUSTRY.
A la… Gen Z wants off.
Isn’t this just called having a lazy morning?
Like you wake up but don’t feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?
As long as you’re not doing that for ages every single day, I’d say it’s fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.
I’m pretty sure they are talking about doing this all day. It’s just a new name for major depressive disorder.
Oooooo I have that one!
No, they will get up and then go back to lay on their bed and scroll for hours
I just go back to sleep lol. If I’m too lazy to get up, I’m usually too lazy to go on my phone.
Throw in a couple of beers and that’s a perfect day.
You fucking psycho.
Think of how many times you’ll need to get out of bed to piss.
(This comment brought to you by shots of vodka)
I read “beers” as “bees” and was really confused. Although a few bees wouldn’t hurt as long as you don’t antagonize them.
“Young people enjoying their youth in ways that make older generations scornful and jealous” - the perennial headline
Isn’t that what they referred to as couch potatoes in boomer time?
Pretty much. Same shit, different corn.
not just gen z. that’s like every second or third day for me when my skeleton is like “fuck you old man, if you wanted to move now you shouldn’t have been a tradesman”
And 20 years ago it was books, magazines, newspaper, gameboys, etc. Nothing has changed.
magazines
yes, we had to keep a physical collection hidden under the bed
