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Instagram Limits Users' Ability to Limit How Much Time They Spend in the App
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it’s funny that everything Facebook owns is reviled by most everyone- yet billions are addicted to it.
And people wonder why attention spans are abysmally low. Can't even keep interest with short form video. I've switched away from YT app to using within Safari and I love the omission of the Shorts tab. Sick of that crap.
I only watch the Instagram posts that my wife forwards to me (my addiction is Apple News+), but it reminds me of when MTV debuted. My sister would be watching, and I'd be passing by on my way to do something else, and a cool music video would be on. Then the next one would come on, and I'd watch it. If I didn't like it, well, in three minutes, another one would be on, so I'd wait for it. In this way, 30 or more minutes easily would pass, with me still standing in the same place.
Someone I watch on YouTube occasionally calls it 'poopstagram'. Actually using the 's-word'.
I never got hooked on it, so I can only wonder what a morass of dependency it is for some people. Facebok is evil, but then so is innate human nature. *sigh*
I never got hooked on it, so I can only wonder what a morass of dependency it is for some people. Facebok is evil, but then so is innate human nature. *sigh*
And slow internet has made me way more 'type-A' over the years. I have become so much more impatient and hate to wait for things. (Come on Apple Car and Goggles!!!
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Not a huge issue since iOS and Android both have functions built-in to the OS to allow you to limit time spent in apps and on your phone period.
I wish screen time required a password to extend limits. Something besides clicking a button that’s says “ignore my limits”. I already do that with cookies I wish that screen time would enforce limits better. Maybe make you do the breath app three times first.
Instagram knew so many people are addicted to it especially teenagers to adults, bit too late to add this new features…
Once you have old habit it is really hard to shake it off unless you have a strong willpower.
Once you have old habit it is really hard to shake it off unless you have a strong willpower.
My life is surprisingly better without any social media in it. (OK, one guilty pleasure is Reddit on occasion. But I'm Twitter/FB/IG-free since Covid.)
So yeah, highly recommended.
So yeah, highly recommended.
They bumped the limit because it takes much longer to find (via scrolling) an actual photo post from someone I chose to follow! ? …it’s all ads & randomly inserted TikTok videos anymore.
It’s a hassle to follow actual photographers/people, or even companies without 9:10’s of it being junk ads.
It’s a hassle to follow actual photographers/people, or even companies without 9:10’s of it being junk ads.
... which is understandable.
The baffling thing is why this feature ever got included in the product in the first place. Almost like your neighborhood meth dealer providing a pamphlet of the dangers of meth use to each customer and then realizing it isn't good for his business.
But cigarettes...
In Australia they print pictures of cancer patients and masses (as I remember), and that doesn't stop people from smoking. *shrug*
You are right.
Once a person develops a habit or addiction, you can't reason your way out of it, because the habit is an emotion response and not a rational one.