[Context: I’m not a digital minimalist but I am somewhat of a “digital reducetarian”: I don’t have social media (besides LinkedIn) and have a browser plugin that reduces my access to particular websites (like LessWrong).]
Cool post :)
For me, there’s something “strange” here (not surprising, but unlike my own experience), where the implication is that people have huge swaths of “free time” that they use for scrolling and the like (which you instead use for what’s described in this post). I spend the vast majority of my time either working or doing something with kids/lovers/friends. (I did read this post in bed preparing to start my day, and am sneaking in this comment between breakfast and work.) Plus short breaks from work, and a short time in bed before sleeping, during which I read fiction books (admittedly using digital means, but in principle I could use physical books just as well, if I could fit them all into my apartment).
It’s fun to hear about your experience talking to random strangers! Catalogued it under “I would never do this but I’m glad some people do”.
Maybe you’ve been doing it long enough that your real life social relationships have grown and been nurtured to fill the time you don’t waste scrolling.
[Context: I’m not a digital minimalist but I am somewhat of a “digital reducetarian”: I don’t have social media (besides LinkedIn) and have a browser plugin that reduces my access to particular websites (like LessWrong).]
Cool post :)
For me, there’s something “strange” here (not surprising, but unlike my own experience), where the implication is that people have huge swaths of “free time” that they use for scrolling and the like (which you instead use for what’s described in this post). I spend the vast majority of my time either working or doing something with kids/lovers/friends. (I did read this post in bed preparing to start my day, and am sneaking in this comment between breakfast and work.) Plus short breaks from work, and a short time in bed before sleeping, during which I read fiction books (admittedly using digital means, but in principle I could use physical books just as well, if I could fit them all into my apartment).
It’s fun to hear about your experience talking to random strangers! Catalogued it under “I would never do this but I’m glad some people do”.
Maybe you’ve been doing it long enough that your real life social relationships have grown and been nurtured to fill the time you don’t waste scrolling.
IME even those with rich in-person relationships can spend hours a day scrolling. It’s a sort of universal opiate.