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>>328853 (OP) 
Kitties, and I get dumb shit about Warhammer

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Cause this

>50% of it is ads 50% celebs lives flaunting their wealth and lifestyle.
You are too young or have forget. When we had TV it was the same shit, people watched ads and never care and celebrities and gossip was always big, even before TV, since the radio era.
Entertainment and human interaction are basic human needs, social media gives a lot of the former and some of the latter in a illusion way.
>it's like bread and circuses WITHOUT the bread or the circuses.
Welcome to the future, we have hologram bread and digital circus.

Same way you doomscroll imageboards

>>328853 (OP) 
No idea. I deleted all my social media in 2012 when the live feeds began. Wise move on my part.

>>328853 (OP) 
The comfort of not being alone since half of the US population right now is NEET [probably not counting welfare niggers and illegals hiding out] and has now gone at least half or their entire lives with little to no human connection.
We've basically become Japan but stinkier and gayer.

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>>328853 (OP) 
>I tried to ask her "what do you get from this?"
Good luck with that.
I think you'll find that the short answer is simply that a vast portion of the population merely feel the need to fill the silence with something, anything to keep the existential dread of their own thoughts, undistracted, from having sole focus in their minds.

I have also watched family members stare in glazed-eye torpor as the flickering light of the "magic screen" washes over them. It doesn't matter if it's TeeVee or a smaller screen with greater interactive ability; what you need to be aware of is that mass cognitive manipulation has been studied and perfected since the 40s, via the Tavistock Institution and MKU.
This means that generations, starting with the Baby Boomers, have been programmed in Skinner-box style, to respond to a screen as a willing participant in a sort of hypnotic induction that bypasses actual experiences and critical thinking by utilizing primates' mirror neurons as if what they are watching is actually happening to them on a subconscious level.
Add to that the substitution of primal drives of sex and hunger to consooomer products, and you have a volatile mix of addictive and engaging programming which serves to reinforce a surface level awareness of existence as well as providing relief from having to confront their actual lives, which if looked at critically and deeply, would be recognized as empty and a SCAM to make people PAY for the mere fact of living.

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>>328856
This.
Millions of G.I Gen,Boomers and Xers tuned into this every night right after the nightly ((( NEWS ))) and had this dreck pumped into their heads:
https://youtu.be/r4t8n4vOFaM

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>>328862
A feed is something that farm animals have, while they're being milked and fattened up for slaughter.

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>>328856
TV was most prevalent in the US, and even then the broadcast (non-cable) channels went dark late at night. European countries had only a few TV channels in the 70's and 80's. I guess this started changing in the 90's. Personally I never watched much TV, my thing was books, and later on computers (and of course going outside to ride my bike or visit a friend or whatever). And actually a whole lot of people used to read back then. I would see them in the public transport with their books, magazines, or newspapers. There was often a line at the public library to check out books.