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why does reading / listening to a book almost never have regretted user minutes and social media does?

for me its because its easy to stop reading. if i can't pay attention or its boring its natural to stop. there's nothing pulling me or dragging me back, its an active process. with social its more passive: you have the world's most potent memetic content surfaced and even autoplayed to keep you going well past when you might have stopped.

the feeling of regretted life minutes is familiar to me, its the same feeling as losing more than you can afford gambling, having bad sex, or doing drugs.

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Me too - about soc med.

I find it easier to get lost in paper rather than eBooks. Old school, I guess.

Also, I prefer how Japan lumps this all as SNS.. social networking service. It's all about the network effect.

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I kept wanting to reach for the SNS term, it’s become convenient.

paper feels undeniably good, love Japan standard size novels and flex as well.