A bit dumbfounded and just had to express it.

I had a 7 hour flight a couple of days ago and it had free wifi on the flight. Neat, I get to message people on the plane. However, I feel that for that long you still bring a book, or puzzles, or in my case I brought my Deck and played games for the duration of the flight.

The guy next to me though watched TikTok for the entire flight. 7 hours of constant stream of algorithm content to his face. I kind of understand why it’s so addicting, it just keeps coming and coming with no end. I was just astonished with how he could keep going for 7 hours. An hour fine, it’s a lot but we’ve all lost ourselves for an hour. 7 hours of constant feed though.

Idk, people come here to Lemmy and the Fediverse and say there isn’t enough content. Well if 7 hours of content like that is expected it’s too freaking much. If anything I feel I’m much healthier with social media now. Maybe they’re angry because it feels more like a withdrawal.

No real point to this post beyond that. Just a very interesting thing to witness.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    8 days ago

    What are all of you maniacs doing awake on a seven hour flight? Just close your eyes and nap the whole way. Fuckin’ caffeine addicts.

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      6 days ago

      if one is an addict, they would get anxiety or get antsy if they go more than a certian amount of time if not consuming social media.

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      7 days ago

      These god damn sleep junkies always hitting the snooze button. Why can’t they space out into the void in existential dread like normal people on a flight.

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      7 days ago

      I can’t sleep in a moving vehicle at all. I’ve had 18 hour flights where I was unable to sleep the whole time and my brain was absolutely fried by the time I got to the hotel.