rwyinuse 3 months ago

Almost any form of media can be addicting. Kids these days might watch TikTok, but my worst addiction since young age has been reading online news.

Once I got diagnosed with ADHD and tried stimulant medicine, I noticed that the time I spend reading news, social media and playing games dropped dramatically. So, effectively all these activities have been nothing more than drugs for my dysfunctional brain. When my brain isn't deficient in dopamine, I seem to automatically spend most of my time on something more useful. Probably wouldn't be writing this if my meds weren't wearing off at this time of day.

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  • lm28469 3 months ago

    HN is too slow for that, if you spend the time kids spend on tiktok every day here you'll get bored to death.

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    • EasyMark 3 months ago

      yep tiktak has far more serotonin spikes per "next item" per unit time than hackernews.

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  • grahamj 3 months ago

    Meanwhile I’m reading this while I should be coding

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ipsum2 3 months ago

Speak for yourself. I've been using hacker news since high school, 10+ years ago and haven't been able to stop.

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Kiro 3 months ago

HN is the most addictive social media I've ever used.

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1718627440 3 months ago

Not a teen since recently, but got to know it earlier, so ... untrue.

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scarecrowbob 3 months ago

It has a built in timer to prevent folks from using it too often.

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