[Misc] Reels, Shorts, Tiktok etc...

[Was not Was]

Anyone else found themselves slowly being reeled (sorry) in by these awful short, endless streams of shit? I don't feel I'm addicted to social media per se and I thought I was above it. But my screentime has steadily increased over the previous year to a pretty bad level.

I don't want to delete my accounts or uninstall these apps. I enjoying using facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube for what they were originally intended. I have tik tok so I can prove I am very young and also hip and cool. But I need to limit it. And the UX patterns are absolutely incredible and dragging you into to that never ending stream and keeping you locked in.

In a worst case I might set up some app limits on my phone. But it's a depressing thought having to have a hard limit on it. In the meantime I'm going to try to read more longform and lob my phone across the room if I notice I've started DOOM SCROLLING.

Anybody else in the same boat?

I recognise some of this. Last weekend, I deleted Facebook from my phone and it has made a difference. It took 10 seconds, I haven't deleted my account. I can still look at FB, Insta, Tiktok links on my computer if a friend sends me one, but this seems to be the way to avoid that 'one reel after another' feeling, for me at least.

 

[METALMICKY]

Anyone else found themselves slowly being reeled (sorry) in by these awful short, endless streams of shit? I don't feel I'm addicted to social media per se and I thought I was above it. But my screentime has steadily increased over the previous year to a pretty bad level.

I don't want to delete my accounts or uninstall these apps. I enjoying using facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube for what they were originally intended. I have tik tok so I can prove I am very young and also hip and cool. But I need to limit it. And the UX patterns are absolutely incredible and dragging you into to that never ending stream and keeping you locked in.

In a worst case I might set up some app limits on my phone. But it's a depressing thought having to have a hard limit on it. In the meantime I'm going to try to read more longform and lob my phone across the room if I notice I've started DOOM SCROLLING.

Anybody else in the same boat?

Kind of. For some reason I can't fathom I keep getting Facebook reels about the constant battle between Kangal Shepherd Dogs and wolves. Fascinating stuff!

 

[Oh_aye]

Anyone else found themselves slowly being reeled (sorry) in by these awful short, endless streams of shit? I don't feel I'm addicted to social media per se and I thought I was above it. But my screentime has steadily increased over the previous year to a pretty bad level.

I don't want to delete my accounts or uninstall these apps. I enjoying using facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube for what they were originally intended. I have tik tok so I can prove I am very young and also hip and cool. But I need to limit it. And the UX patterns are absolutely incredible and dragging you into to that never ending stream and keeping you locked in.

In a worst case I might set up some app limits on my phone. But it's a depressing thought having to have a hard limit on it. In the meantime I'm going to try to read more longform and lob my phone across the room if I notice I've started DOOM SCROLLING.

Anybody else in the same boat?

My wife's phone goes off at 10pm and she can't use it. Not sure how she does it because I'm a luddite.

I don't have most of those apps but sometimes see some of that shìte connected to YouTube.

The banality of them is quite overwhelming. No wonder kids today have the attention span of a fruit fly.

Some of them are like 10 seconds long "POV: when you're on the beach and you remember the time your life partner proposed"

Followed by some Botox riddled giblet filming their face on a beach looking wistfully upwards and smiling to absolutely excruciating saccharine music"

What is this? Why would anyone do this with their time?

 

[Weststander]

No. No interest at all.

Mrs.W thinks tiktok clips are side splittingly funny. Instead I love YouTube’s full length videos.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I've logged out of all social media now. If I find that I've clicked onto it I then see it wants me to log in, that feels like too much effort, it kicks my brain into remembering it's trash and I don't bother.

Also put the phone in a different room after 5pm. Family time has been so much better and I'm sleeping better.

I just need to learn to log out of here now......

 

[jackalbion]

Most of this is me too. I stopped using Facebook in lockdown, have never been back and don't miss it. Binned off Twitter when Musk overran it with fascist bots. Don't have Tik Tok and don't want it. The only thing I'd follow on Insta is @jackalbion 's away day stories and kebab reviews but my lad tells me the the best bits of these so I've never really logged in to it. Created a Bluesky account, followed a load of Albion people, never looked at it again.

My son is actually pretty good with this sort of thing. If he's addicted to anything it's gaming but he's currently revising for his A levels and is actually doing the work. My daughter on the other hand. My word. From one Tik Tok to the next like it's the most important thing in the world.

I find everything on Instagram fascinating, I’ve become obsessed with a man and his son who review Costco food items, and now seemingly bring along an unrelated overweight child called the Rizzler.

 

[nicko31]

FB view only apart from closed groups / messenger, most short clips are click bait AVOID

Twitter / X - DELETED Nov 2024

Bluesky - Civilised for now

NSC

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Both FB and Instagram, present these to me in my feeds - but all they ever are, are short clips from Family Guy, Modern Family or Three and a half Men. I have never once in my entire life, watched any of these three shows.

How very strange.

Same, but those Family Guy clips are brilliant....and very dark at times.

 

[Klaas]

2. I view Instagram a few times a day but but it never seems to throw these things at me, and I don't seek them out.

Really? Am amazed by/envious of that. Instagram used to be my favourite social media place but it's just a total mess these days. I sometimes tap the don't show me so many reels option but that seems to have no effect whatsoever.

 

[herecomesaregular]

.....

 

[BNthree]

I'm not a teenager so not something I'm into.

 

[Badger]

All I really use is YouTube and mainly watch that instead of TV. But now my TV app shows shorts at the top when I go to subscriptions. If I had the attention span of a gnat, I would look at shorts. But I want to watch people travelling or fixing old computers or cars or whatever other sad crap I normally watch. Stop forcing banal gibberish on me.

Yes, I noticed the Shorts thing appeared at the top of the subscriptions list on my (Google) TV app the other day. I'm never going to watch Shorts on my TV, especially as most of them are filmed on a phone in portrait mode. It's so irritating when they add new features but don't give you the option to hide the things you're never going to use. I rarely watch YouTube on other devices, so I'm unlikely to watch Shorts.

As for other short videos, I do find myself scrolling through my Instagram feed and occasionally watching amusing videos. It sometimes becomes a habit when I'm particularly bored but I find I go through phases with it. I've never used TikTok and I binned off Facebook from my phone a couple of years ago.

 

[Seagull58]

I only watch barbienegra222 on tiktok. Nothing else comes close.

 

[jackalbion]

I only watch barbienegra222 on tiktok. Nothing else comes close.

 

[OzMike]

I confess to reading the opening message on this thread and have no understanding of what was said, or what it was about.
Probably an age thing.

 

[Whoislloydy]

I deleted all of it about 2 months ago, apart from YouTube.