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from the just-one-more-episode...and-then-the-sun-comes-up dept.
The increasing popularity of global media content like American TV series has been considered as one notable factor associated with binge-watching practices, or continuously consuming media content in a single session.
With the massive global expansion of streaming platforms like Netflix—which had more than 154 million subscribers in over 190 countries in 2019—this practice of marathon viewing of televised content has gradually become a "new ritual" for many viewers.
But not without a price.
Indeed, an American Academy of Sleep Medicine survey in 2019 found 88% of American adults reported a lack of sleep due to binge-watching television and streaming series.
As the use of online streaming services to consume televised content is becoming more common globally, the problem of binge-watching behavior may also become a global phenomenon.
[...] It is inevitable that binge-watching has become a new normal among today's audiences. Yet, given the negative health ramifications associated with it, can we move beyond that? We could try savoring one episode at one time in a slow watching practice.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @07:00AM (4 children)
The same as it ever was. New and shiny, easy distractions, humans get sucked in.
Fads come and go, and addictive activities have been around forever. Society will come to terms with it, people will learn to regulate, the next generation of kids will hopefully be taught better.
I also think a large portion of the problem is tied to wealth inequality and over crowding. Public locations for people to socialize are fewer and fewer, people are overworked and stressed out by the increased complexity of modern life, so we look to simple and entertaining distractions.
We've already had this phenomenon with cable television, and anyway here I am typing away in the late evening doing something marginally more constructive than watching Nethuluzon.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @08:04AM (2 children)
of pervasive surveillance when you are out in society.
With every passing year I feel more comfortable in my house, the last bastion of privacy in an otherwise privacy-free world.
Maybe i could move to the country, or emigrate somewhere it is less pervasive, but for how long, and at what cost?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @05:30PM
You get +3 anonymous upmods
Someone should make a sketch where a couple of guys in trench coats just follow someone around, some minor law is broken and they pull in the coats as witnesses and the defendant asks "you really had these guys follow me around just for that?" and the judge replies "well we tried putting cameras everywhere but people got mad."
Everyone in the sketch looks deadpan at the camera.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 14 2020, @07:23PM
What about the pervasive surveillance when you are at home typing away on a computer?
With every passing year, your in-home privacy is diminishing. Smart TVs with cameras. (the closest things to "telescreens" yet!) Ring. Alexa. Google Assistant. Nest. Etc.
Suspicious activity such as that could get you put on a watch list.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 14 2020, @08:29AM
Instead of being a good consumer as most of the others and bingeing Netflix, you waste your time. And with what? No more and no less, with thinking!!1!one1!.
Can you imagine how catastrophic it would be if many were to follow your footsteps? How do you want Netflix the survive in such conditions? Don't you want to be trickled on, consumer?
Why do you hate capitalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford