Read manga, read porn, listen to books, or music, sometimes watch porn
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Mostly tumblr, Lemmy, reddit, and occasionally Wikipedia for me. Most people I know would be on Instagram, but I can't stand it.
Most normal people? Instagram, tiktok, facebook. Maybe twitter.
I avoid using a phone in that capacity.
YouTube. Also that stupid mobile Pokémon card game for like 3 minutes, twice a day.
Masturbating
Weather, my hobby groups some of which I admin, email, looking up various parts and how-to’s for a car I’m working on, messaging, and occasional housecleaning of the phone itself - getting rid of unnecessary photos, email, SMS and all that.
Is anybody truly "normal?" Whenever I pick up my phone to waste time, I bounce between:
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YouTube
Excel spreadsheets
Amazon shopping app
VA app for appointment reminders, medical records, messaging with my doctors
Add a bunch of app to look for home properties or fishing spots and that’s me as well. Maybe add kindle app if I forgot the device home.
I have an ebook reader and I download epubs. I also have an audio book player so it looks like im working.
How the fuck is anyone here supposed to answer that? There's nobody normal here!
It is important that we observe humanity, that we may less noticeably walk in the midst of it. By comparing notes, we maximize our observations.
The way normal works, if everyone here on lemmy does something one way, then that becomes the normal. There's no universal normal, because normal is always relative to context. The broader the context, then the wider and more diverse the normal becomes.
Or as my statistics professor liked to say “normal is a curve, get over it”.
Recently I watched a guy in a movie theater before the movie started fiddling with his phone. In rapid fire, he was scrolling Instagram, liking things and stopping on hot ladies. Switch over to facebook and quick scroll that. Send a link to a friend. Then doomscroll reddit.
I don't think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
(Sam Elliott voice) He too is god's handiwork.
I don't think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
wait...is this not how the internet is supposed to work?
Me:
- Open Maps
- Stare at it
- Mentally think to my self this is my life now (say, I'm waiting at an appointment for something)
- Press home buttom
- Open App list
- Scroll up and down
- To back to home page
- STARE at it, pretending I'm busy doing something
- Oh shit maybe I should actually do something
- Realize I actually haven't taken the time to download anything beforehand
- Downloads Lichess
- Actually I wanna just browse wikipedia
- Find an article for what stuff I have on my mind
- STARE at it, pretending I'm reading an ebook
- Actually I can't focus, home screen again
- Opens the notes app
-
- blank note
- Hmm okay lets write a poem... how am I feeling right now...
- Writes 1-2 line...
- Fuck I can't think of anything else... my head hurts...
- Press homescreen
- Stare at it for 10 seconds
- Turn it off
- Spin the phone around like a fidget spinner
- Bored af
Reminds me of the days I wasted my whole afternoons on Wikipedia while at work.
Lichess best chess
https://lichess.org/ is great even on a computer, not just on a phone. I don't play on my phone, but I do like to play from time to time on lichess :)
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Do you mean normal "phone" people? Are people who don't have a phone or don't play with them abnormal?
Before I had an existential crisis and lost my damn mind it was instagram, discord, and snapchat (literally for 2 people). Now it's just Lemmy.
I'm sorry if your friends hurt you. Me too. That's why I prefer to have conversations with anonymous strangers. I'm done with real people.
It wasn't their fault. They didn't hurt me, I did.
Open phone. See if new email. Check here. Check YouTube subs. Adds up to less than an hour a day. Unless I feel like sudoku. Thats my time sink.
Normal people scroll social media. Instagram. Maybe buy something the ad tells them they need. Then send messages or videos to friends and chats. That's about it.
I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl on my phone.
Short form videos and social media?
Many seem to watch short vertical videos of people talking to the camera about stuff I couldn't care less about.
Hackernews & lobsters
Pornhub and redgifs.
Oh yeah and occasionally emails.
Wordle and a number of other similar puzzles around the web.
- Researching the next project.
- Watching way too much news about American and world politics, I'm getting a bit tired after two years with flooded zone.
- Audiobooks and podcasts.
my wife: short-form video (mostly insta reels, I think).
me: language learning app or ebook.
i play a lot of solitaire
Yeppers, me too. Lots.
They waste hours scrolling too but instead it's billionaire tuned brainrot machines and a handful of predatory games but also Wordle. Holy shit do they love Wordle.
i don't do anything on my phone. it's a flip phone with data and wifi disabled on the device, and sms disabled at the carrier. it's quite literally just a 'telephone'.
if i go somewhere where i might expect a long wait alone (like to a doctor's appointment), i'll take a paperback with me.
Panem et circenses.
Moonreader or play books, when reddit removed 3rd party api access, I never installed the official app, so I replaced it with reading. That is, until I found Lemmy ;) I still read more than I scroll tho.
Lemme, TikTok, Instagram (where I follow mostly artists, friends and crafters), and Libby
As you did forbid the main time killer and i got banned from the other.
Then YouTube or watching some movies/TV shows, some phone games, maybe googling/looking something up.
Of course music and audiobooks, but that's not really spending time on phone, those are just playing on the background.
2048 set to a 7x7 grid.
RSS
I'm off all social media (over 10 years) off reddit for 6+months (banned), closed LinkedIn (2-3mo ago and sick of the data siphoning) closed Imgur about 4-5 months ago (just because). It- honest to God, is SO freeing!
I'm only on my phone for work calls, maybe a few email (use rotating addresses to cut spam), and a game or two from F-Droid if I have spare time. Otherwise it's just a few Lemmy pages about privacy, security, or self-hosted... My 4+ year old phone battery still lasts about 1.5-2 days with mostly WiFi and BT, some GPS and data. It's nice it lasts so long.
Most other free time is family or maybe hobby stuff.
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