The first Google search result for “YouTube addiction”.. ..is a YouTube video.
Of course there are also good articles :
“There were times I wouldn’t communicate with anyone all day. It was isolationist and repetitive and hypnotic. I would sit entranced, swelling my command of thoroughly useless information as YouTube gently wove its spell on me, drawing me deeper and deeper into its pixelated underworld. As one video finished, another one on a similar topic loaded, sucking me in for another five or 10 minutes. Half hours became hours became half days. And outside my window, the world whizzed on.
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Some poisons go to work more slowly than others. They hide in plain sight all around us, masquerading as tools to make our lives more accessible, more comfortable, and more immediate. One day we wake up and they’ve wormed their way inside our minds, ossifying our imaginations, crowding our every moment. And before we know it, we can’t breathe without them.
“I’ve got this,” we tell ourselves. But they’ve got us."
I enjoy listening to South African choirs singing in Zulu and Xhosa on youtube at night, but have enough sense to switch off before I spend an entire night doing it.
Havel over 4 years ago
That which Orwell predicted would be done to us by “Big Brother” has been done to us by us. As Kelly put it “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
Notice they are not tied down, they could walk away anytime.
NeuralCapsule over 4 years ago
The first Google search result for “YouTube addiction”.. ..is a YouTube video.
Of course there are also good articles :
“There were times I wouldn’t communicate with anyone all day. It was isolationist and repetitive and hypnotic. I would sit entranced, swelling my command of thoroughly useless information as YouTube gently wove its spell on me, drawing me deeper and deeper into its pixelated underworld. As one video finished, another one on a similar topic loaded, sucking me in for another five or 10 minutes. Half hours became hours became half days. And outside my window, the world whizzed on.
..
Some poisons go to work more slowly than others. They hide in plain sight all around us, masquerading as tools to make our lives more accessible, more comfortable, and more immediate. One day we wake up and they’ve wormed their way inside our minds, ossifying our imaginations, crowding our every moment. And before we know it, we can’t breathe without them.
“I’ve got this,” we tell ourselves. But they’ve got us."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/03/youtube-addiction-mental-health
Màiri over 4 years ago
I enjoy listening to South African choirs singing in Zulu and Xhosa on youtube at night, but have enough sense to switch off before I spend an entire night doing it.