How the fuck is anyone here supposed to answer that? There's nobody normal here!
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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.
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Most normal people? Instagram, tiktok, facebook. Maybe twitter.
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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
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- 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
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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.
They ask about normal people and Lemmings mostly answer about themselves. 🤦♂️
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Short form videos and social media?
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
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Many seem to watch short vertical videos of people talking to the camera about stuff I couldn't care less about.
YouTube. Also that stupid mobile Pokémon card game for like 3 minutes, twice a day.
Panem et circenses.
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.
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my wife: short-form video (mostly insta reels, I think).
me: language learning app or ebook.
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.
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.
Wordle and a number of other similar puzzles around the web.
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.
- 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.
i play a lot of solitaire
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Open Termux, open Qt Creator and VS Code, write code, compile code, test code, fix bugs, git commit.
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Pornhub and redgifs.
Oh yeah and occasionally emails.
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.
I'm not normal, but I'm guessing some mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. But, maybe there's more casino / gatcha games, too.
I have an ebook reader and I download epubs. I also have an audio book player so it looks like im working.
Masturbating
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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.
Idk. Goon.
Mostly tumblr, Lemmy, reddit, and occasionally Wikipedia for me. Most people I know would be on Instagram, but I can't stand it.
I leave it in my pocket or in my messenger bag, unused safe when I really need it.
Instead, I will either read a book, look/walk around for something or some scene to sketch, or will spend time talking with people.
And, yes, I consider myself 'most normal people' ;)
Local current and future weather forecast
What plants do well in my zone this time of year.
Contemplate on getting another rain barrel
Read patch notes for whatever game I'm currently playing
Check forums for posts about patch notes complaints.
Read articles I’ve saved to my self hosted readeck.
Oh you said normal people …
2048 set to a 7x7 grid.
RSS
Listen to music
Lemme, TikTok, Instagram (where I follow mostly artists, friends and crafters), and Libby
Hackernews & lobsters
Do you mean normal "phone" people? Are people who don't have a phone or don't play with them abnormal?
Play chess or read about history
Why not Reddit? I've found more reddit users irl after I left than anytime before. Seems plenty normal. Otherwise, facebook/tiktok/Instagram/YouTube scrolling. I assume Tumblr and Twitter, too. A myriad of endless mobile games based around bubbles, blocks, or tower defense. I've also seen cross stitch and paint by numbers type apps. I'm sure there's people that doomscroll regular news sites.
I'm guessing you're looking to use your time better and want recommendations though, not just a list describing how every cohort is doomscrolling their little diminishing dopamine box.
Read manga, read porn, listen to books, or music, sometimes watch porn
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I might not be normal but other than Lemmy, lately
- Respond to messages in a few niche discords I'm on for fishkeeping
- NYTimes crossword
- Messages and likes on Hinge
- Email and sms catch-ups mostly networking
- Videos on YouTube or checking my peertube aquarium Livestream
My sister and younger nephew seem to spend a lot of time on shortform content on YouTube and TikTok. Sister also ends up on Facebook I think. Mom is Facebook, YouTube shorts, and puzzle type mobile games.
Normal people don't need a phone to pass the time.
With that being said, the amount of brain rot competing for our attention is staggering.
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Read a book on Libby (library app).
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.
Backgammon
Plenty of proper games (read: not mobile games) have ports on lots of app stores, particularly deck building games. I've been playing Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons, and Balatro.
Cracking the Cryptic 🙏🙏🙏
You're lookin' at it. I have no time for the vapidity of Facebook, 'gram, Snapchat, etc. I only hit FB now for the messaging with my family and some short-reel dopamine.
Depends, at home on WiFi.. I might watch videos. If I'm out and about..
I read wikipedia pages, ars-technica articles, read the news, scroll through pics of my cats.
Shop. Notes. Pictures. Social media. News.
Not what I do, just what I've noticed normal people in my life do.
when i get tired of reddit, lemmy, imgur, i just play tetris
I avoid using a phone in that capacity.
For other people its a mix of the following, talk to people on whatsapp/wechat/messanger/facetime and scroll instagram/tiktok/x/facebook/reddit
For me I dont have mobile data so if im out of the house im listening to music or listening to a video I downloaded on Grayjay. If for some reason I am using my phone at home im probably using it as a tv remote(kde connect to my steamdeck) or watching porn.
Not porn. Not staring at the home screen hating myself wanting to end my life until I feel hungry enough to eat some uninspired shit from yesterday or taking a shower to act like I'm preparing to go somewhere and that my life has purpose. Not that. Hm... I guess I don't use my phone to pass time. I do use my rooted and nuetered tablet to learn programming from time to time though. 😊
Somehow I am a linkedIn addict. It probably come from a receny unemployment period, but even before I used it frequently to keep updated on company news.
Any short form media tiktok, reels, youtube shorts
Listen to music which is popular with the masses. Watch sportsball games. Chat with their normie loved ones. Lick the boots of their corporate puppet-masters.
We're sooo much better than those pathetic people! They're probably jealous of us, and that's why they go about their lives pretending not to notice us. Having their "relationships" and enjoying their "interests" and "hobbies." I bet deep down inside they can't stand the hollow shells of the lives they lead.
They secretly seethe and loathe and act in their minds like terrible, ugly people who think they're better than 95% of others. But when the revolution comes, they'll be shocked at how little "according to their needs" turns out to be and how much "according to their abilities" ends up being expected of them. That's when we're in charge, and then we can rub their faces in it!
Mwhahahahaha!
Wait.... Are we the baddies?
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