The average person spends 7 hours a day on their smartphones

[DavidEaslea]

We literally live more of our lives through our phones than in real life.

[roosky11]

For me even though I have two phones, the most time I spend on it is when I video call my friends or make a phone call to my class advisor. Some days it's just checking when a mail or text notification comes through and others no more than 10-20 minutes total and some none at all. Can't imagine spending 7 hours on a phone daily. Computer on the other hand, every day all day.

[theory816]

Ukrainecels feeling the burn of no internet as we spek.

[Tears]

Imagine how many <18 spend that time looking at porn.

[Silencespeaks]

Yeah it’s a collective addiction.

I’m on my phone all day and I’m disgusted by it. Sometimes I want to just chuck it in a lake and be free.

I’m no TV crew though and no PC or iPad etc. Just phone and laptop so I’m down to two devices. I hate electronics really. Would love to eventually just be laptop only.

[Tears]

Yeah it’s a collective addiction.

I’m on my phone all day and I’m disgusted by it. Sometimes I want to just chuck it in a lake and be free.

I’m no TV crew though and no PC or iPad etc. Just phone and laptop so I’m down to two devices. I hate electronics really. Would love to eventually just be laptop only.

That's great unless you substitute your lack of television for an increase in phone and laptop.

Which apparently you have

[Silencespeaks]

That's great unless you substitute your lack of television for an increase in phone and laptop.

Which apparently you have

Yep it’s terrible. I don’t use my laptop much and it’s more for email and admin and finances etc not entertainment. But I’m on my phone all day for entertainment. It’s the worst man

[misheru]

We literally live more of our lives through our phones than in real life.

We're literally doing the same **** we were doing before but on a phone. How many hours do you think people spent reading newspapers, writing letters, using corded phones and looking up directions on a map when driving somewhere before smartphones?

[Tears]

How many hours do you think people spent reading newspapers, writing letters, using corded phones and looking up directions on a map when driving somewhere before smartphones?

You think people spent the same amount of time reading newspapers, writing letters, or looking up directions each day 20 years ago as they do now on their smartphones?

Even if they did, which they don't, it doesn't compare to the cancer they view on tik tok, ********, instigram, and twitter

I envy your ignorance if you think so.

[Silencespeaks]

We're literally doing the same **** we were doing before but on a phone. How many hours do you think people spent reading newspapers, writing letters, using corded phones and looking up directions on a map when driving somewhere before smartphones?

Dude that is totally different. Back then you were doing one thing with attention focused just on that one thing at a slow pace. Smart phone pulls your attention in a million different directions at very high speed switching AND intentionally manipulates your attention.

[roosky11]

Yeah it’s a collective addiction.

I’m on my phone all day and I’m disgusted by it. Sometimes I want to just chuck it in a lake and be free.

I’m no TV crew though and no PC or iPad etc. Just phone and laptop so I’m down to two devices. I hate electronics really. Would love to eventually just be laptop only.

PC is a personal computer and a laptop is just that, a personal computer. What you mean to say is that you only have a laptop and not a desktop, so you do have a PC. What do you even spend your time doing on the phone to be on it all day anyways? Unless you're a high end stock trader, running a business or the like, I don't see why any average person would be glued to it.

[DieAlone]

ok and?

how is it any different than 2002 when kids were dying cuz they played counter strike/starcraft/wow/chatroomed for 30 hours strait living off of redbull and doritos?

things are no different that 20 years ago. just better quality and "apps" and its phones now instead of desktops

[JayJ350]

I spend about 0 hours a day on mine. Literally only use it for phone calls, texts, and the occasional app I need to use.

[Tears]

ok and?

how is it any different than 2002 when kids were dying cuz they played counter strike/starcraft/wow/chatroomed for 30 hours strait living off of redbull and doritos?

things are no different that 20 years ago. just better quality and "apps" and its phones now instead of desktops

Yep, things are no different than 20 years ago

except that any kid with a single parent, or lack of any parent, can search for gore and porn whenever they like now, which wasn't the case 20 years ago.

And people like you are clueless as to how to stop it.

[Silencespeaks]

PC is a personal computer and a laptop is just that, a personal computer. What you mean to say is that you only have a laptop and not a desktop, so you do have a PC. What do you even spend your time doing on the phone to be on it all day anyways? Unless you're a high end stock trader, running a business or the like, I don't see why any average person would be glued to it.

Yeah I meant not a desktop. Phone and laptop are my only electronics.

Phone:

Misc

Snapchat

IG

WhatsApp

Safari for news sites and crypto and TMZ etc


Vast majority is misc, IG, Snapchat

[OrbOddLaw]

Every year I take the equivalent of a 3 months detox from online anything, and go full monk mode. It's not always consecutive, but the longest I've gone was 120 days.

I plug out everything and lock away my laptop, pc, ipad, no phone and anything else that keeps me plugged in and hyper aware of the outside world. I don't listen to music or watch anything.

Living in a rural, woodsy area makes it easier.

I read, meditate, camp, walk the local trails, explore the woods, draw, paint, swim, do wood work, journal/write down ideas, play instruments, teach myself new skills, calligraphy, origami <---I mean I already do those things daily, but it becomes full time activities when I'm not online. Typically, I'll fast too.

After this period, you legit feel like a different person and have a fresh perspective on a lot of things.

[Tears]

Every year I take the equivalent of a 3 months detox from online anything, and go full monk mode. It's not always consecutive, but the longest I've gone was 120 days.

I plug out everything and lock away my laptop, pc, ipad, no phone and anything else that keeps me plugged in and hyper aware of the outside world. I don't listen to music or watch anything.

Living in a rural, woodsy area makes it easier.

I read, meditate, camp, walk the local trails, explore the woods, draw, paint, swim, do wood work, journal/write down ideas, play instruments, teach myself new skills, calligraphy, origami <---I mean I already do those things daily, but it becomes full time activities when I'm not online. Typically, I'll fast too.

After this period, you legit feel like a different person and have a fresh perspective on a lot of things.

Have you ever tried no fap and no pillow?

[lightsarefallin]

Rarely check smart phone crew
Use smart phone occasionally to increase knowledge about random stuff crew
Use smart phone camera lens to learn about plants and flowers in the area crew
Use smart phone to photograph nature and sunsets crew
Use smart phone to take progress photos crew
Have never misced on my smart phone crew
Thunderpants in my toilet on a daily basis crew
Clockwork caca factory crew

[OrbOddLaw]

Have you ever tried no fap and no pillow?

I sleep on hardwood floors all the time. It did wonders for my posture and core strength. I LOVE a good comfy bed, but holee chitt sleeping on the floor was a blessing in disguise.

No fap is hardest during that time of the month, because my libido typically goes through the roof, but if you have enough ideal distractions it becomes easier.

I also forgot to add I literally do not speak to anyone during that period. If you want to reach me you got to know my address and send me snail mail. I love writing hand written letters.

I would suggest everyone try to at least go 1-3 days per month without online related stuff. I know it's hard for most people because they have families, and spouses, but you'll feel a lot better.

[JayJ350]

Yep, things are no different than 20 years ago

except that any kid with a single parent, or lack of any parent, can search for gore and porn whenever they like now, which wasn't the case 20 years ago.

And people like you are clueless as to how to stop it.

You retarded? If anything the internet is far more cleaned up now than it was in the past, you could access incredibly phucked up chit with ease back in the day.

[DieAlone]

Yep, things are no different than 20 years ago

except that any kid with a single parent, or lack of any parent, can search for gore and porn whenever they like now, which wasn't the case 20 years ago.

And people like you are clueless as to how to stop it.

WRONG. back then you had ogrish and other gore sites. i am not clueless, back then you had parental controls that could block that **** out. ppl just didnt bother buying them. now a lot of them come standard if you actaully looked around in the settings. its pretty easy to control what your kids/people are looking at. every device now comes with parental controls/filters - its standard.

[Tears]

You retarded? If anything the internet is far more cleaned up now than it was in the past, you could access incredibly phucked up chit with ease back in the day.

WRONG. back then you had ogrish and other gore sites. i am not clueless, back then you had parental controls that could block that **** out. ppl just didnt bother buying them. now a lot of them come standard if you actaully looked around in the settings. its pretty easy to control what your kids/people are looking at. every device now comes with parental controls/filters - its standard.

Are you saying it's easier or harder for a 10 year old to look up gore and porn now versus 20 years ago?

[OrbOddLaw]

To add to the discussion above, I kinda agree with both takes above. Though, I personally feel as though it is very effortless to find gore and porn online and it's FREE for the most part. They have whole forums dedicated to gore and people enduring unimaginable torture. I've complained about this before that it's funny to me how Big Tech/Shadow Government has censored a lot of the fringe, obscure, and niche sites, but gore and porn are still thriving.

I recall when I was in Catholic Junior High School all the kids were talking about ogrish, rotten, and all those shock fetish porn websites, especially the Japanese ones, where the women were raping Octopods and inserting bad things in themselves.

The internet is more sanitized, but not in the way many think...

Take note of how the reverse image search has declined in quality, similar images, and results.

Remember when Google reverse image actually found the exact image instead of generalized similar images? It’s rendered useless now. Absolutely obsolete.

The internet used to be this amazing vast world of infinite, unlimited views, perspectives, opinions, thoughts, ideas, independent archiving of history via personal websites, enthralling forums to engage with people about all sorts of subject matters, first hand accounts on unconventional topics, alternative reports and so forth. The vast wealth of information could at times be overwhelming, but it was an indescribably powerful feeling to have unlimited access to a wide array of information at your fingertips. Now it's just a commercialized curated echo chamber. How it was vs what it is now has radically changed.

The irony hasn't escaped me that it's insanely easy to find all sorts of gore, graphic depictions of violence, torture, snuff films, sometimes even occurring in real time, yet they place literal roadblocks on useful information, knowledge, perspectives that they don't want you to have unlimited access to. What exactly are they trying to conceal? If it was about protecting impressionable minds or shielding people from potential disturbing material, then gore would not be so readily available at one's fingertips.

Back in 2018 on another forum I post on someone linked to this really disturbing forum where people get their kicks off gore, where this user was posting pics of himself in the morgue of a children's hospital, and he posted pictures of him playing with the kid's bodies. Not in a sexually molesting way, but more like mocking, propping their bodies up in unusual ways.

He's a mortician, and takes really disturbing photographs of sick, terminally ill, and deceased children, while he's masked, and posts them on some underground gorehound forums. He squishes their faces and body parts into strange positions for his personal amusement.

A lot of people on said forum were pissed, and this place attracts the lowest of the low. Someone tried to call various children's hospitals in california to find the guy and get him removed and/or charged.

[OT2000]

Average only 2-3hrs daily and half is work.

[DieAlone]

Are you saying it's easier or harder for a 10 year old to look up gore and porn now versus 20 years ago?

its the same

[Tears]

its the same

Well, I wonder what has caused the increase in school shootings then.

[TrynaBeast]

Damn that's a lot. I don't spend that much on my phone but I can definitely decrease the amount of time I spend on it.
Already deleted all my social media though except ig and I don't even have that on my phone. I've definitely had more time on my hands since I did that

[OrbOddLaw]

Well, I wonder what has caused the increase in school shootings then.

Desensitization to violence and pornagrphy does play a role. Take for example, this case, albeit this is not a school shooting incident, but a story of a broken man who was a sexually deviant and porn addict, and lured a journalist who wanted to do a story on him, into his submarine to kill her.

The prosecution said that police had found videos on Madsen's computer showing women being murdered,[27] and that witnesses said that they had seen Madsen watching videos of decapitation and practising asphyxiation sex.[26] Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen told the court that no traces of Madsen's DNA had been found on Wall's body but said: "... traces of semen have been found in the underpants which were secured from Peter Madsen after the arrest". Under questioning, Madsen denied ejaculating while he was with Wall.[28]

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However some mass shootings and serial killers are a result of Cointelpro/PSYOPs/MK ULtra and Crisis Acting in SOME, but not all cases.

[eod8989]

Everywhere you go folks are just looking at screens even at places like the gym where you used to lift heavy weights

[DefNotNVous]

Average Canadian watches 100k hours of tv, it sounds like a lot but not so crazy

6 per day every day for 40+ years or 3 per day for 80+ years

I love when I bring 20+ books to starbucks and everyone just has to watch me read while they mindlessly scroll their iphones.

I get normies, but the worst thing I see is couples and families ignoring each other, wtf is the point of being together then?