This is some crazy shit. Only you can decide if a behavior is addictive. People can suggest it but it's only an opinion. They dont live your experience. Having said that, your watch patterns are shocking to me.
Disordered behavior and addiction is dependent on the specific action having a meaningfully detrimental impact on one's life. Addiction is not a subjective thing, this is why I don't like when people use that word the way the author did. It's a clinically defined thing.
I appreciate that it lets me live my life with less struggles. I am far from an outlier in any way. I would recommend looking up average watch time statistic across various social media platforms as well as Netflix, Amazon, etc. As well as viwer stats of seasons sports like College Football, Formula 1, FIFA.
"According to Insider Intelligence projections, while overall time spent with media per day will decline slightly from 13 hours, 13 minutes in 2021 to 13 hours, 7 minutes in 2022, time spent with digital media—video, smartphones, CTV, subscription OTT, and digital audio—will maintain steady gains and continue claiming even more time going forward."
Just wanted to say, I appreciate your measured responses throughout the thread. It’s sometimes a bit hard to be normal but with everyone calling you abnormal (or in this case, crazy) and it’s always nice to see someone who truly doesn’t care.
Radio is a great analogy for this. Compared to entire families coming come and sitting down in front of the national TV, I’d take social media any day.
It’s possible for an entire society can be misled into thinking something is normal or healthy when it’s not. Doctors in the 1940s and 1950s smoked and were in advertisements for Camel cigarettes. It was normal and ubiquitous. Was it healthy?
There are other examples of this. Is too much video watching another instance? That’s for you to decide. At least consider it a possibility and then move on.
