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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @03:52PM (1 child)
Human sleepcycles have been disrupted by TV ever since it first entered the market and it has been keeping people up past their bedtime ever since.
Feeling sleepy at 8PM in the 60's? Instead of reading a good book in bed until you fall asleep, now you can lay on the couch and intermittently doze while watching Twilight Zone.
In the 70's, gotta stay up past the 10PM news to catch some famous actor of that era on Johnny Carson.
In the 80's: 'Extreme' music videos didn't play until after 10PM, and Benny Hill comes on at 11PM on a school night.
In the 90's: Subscribe to cable and channel surf!
Channel2->nothing good on
Channel3->nothing good on
Channel4->nothing good on
...
Channel 57>nothing good on
Channel 58-200-> skip because they just repeat the lower channels, are PPV, are a different language, or are crappy infomercials.
Restart at Channel2 because something good might now be on.
Repeat the above steps at least 5x until you finally realize nothing is on and you might as well turn off the TV and go go bed.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 14 2020, @07:34PM
Human sleepcycles are responsible for loss of ad revenue and something must be done about this!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.