The Very Online Show 18: How To Log Off Completely

Fantastic shirt Jeff

This doom editing *chef's kiss*

Jess, Doom-Stomach-Guy… you are a mensch!!

Fuckin' Tam, lol

Best episode yet.

@voidburger Beautiful editing. MARVELOUS!

@voidburger your commitment to the DOOM bit is an inspiration to us all.

Tam and Lucy winding up Jeff was a treat, also DooM guy :)

You are seen, Tam. Immortal Technique effin slaps.

Also, incredible editing as always Jess!

Fantastic editing, a great episode!

Guys.... I literally talked about this with my therapist this afternoon! You raised some great points, fantastic episode :)

The Doom bit got me every single time.

You four have such incredible chemistry

Interesting to see a wider perspective on this.

Personally, I don't use any major form of social media. No Twitter, TikTok, Insta and so on. Early on it was ideological distaste, general anxiety from notifications. Now I could not do it if I wanted to - due to a rather acute sense of physical disgust I get from it. Which I suppose is a useful if distressing rewiring my brain has done.

Pro tip: Throw your phone in the trash and never buy a new one. Only really works if you're a nolife loser, but if you are, god damn it's nice to not have a phone. Only social networking I use at all is Reddit, and rarely. Sometimes comment on youtube vids, but yeah.. I don't sit on instagram scrolling for emotions or spend my time trying to dodge viral Crowder, Shapiro and other far right fuckwits posts on Facebook. Instead I'm living my life untethered from the drama generator in our pockets. That thing will strip you of an identity over time, turn you into a reactionary rage-hound through repetition.

Get angry, comment, get angry, comment, get angry, comment. That cycle breaks our brains.

I'm extra super old, so I remember pre-internet. And I have a clear memory of how "catching up with old friends" was very different pre and post internet. And in the transition to internet, it was actually a bit disappointing how catching up with a friend you hadn't seen in a while was no longer a big event with swapping stories.

I appreciate Lucy's insight about taking psych studies with a grain of salt. It's a very helpful field that is often used wrongly to search for definite and easy answers. As someone with similar studies, I tend to expect the worst when it's brought up in popular media, but Lucy did a perfect job explaining why we cannot take these studies as gospel while still acknowledging their importance.

Great episode all around.

Happy 3/11 y'all

Thanks y'all! The best of the new content :)

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The overwhelming amount of information isn't the only reason we have more difficulty remembering things. We generally don't NEED to remember things either because we know we can always just look it up when we need it so we train our brains to not retain information.

Really great episode (as always), but this is a topic I think a lot about lately (as someone with anxiety that takes medication and all that). I’m getting slightly better at managing my screen time, specifically with social media browsing, but definitely have a long way to go.

I just subscribe to a lot of puzzle magazines

Best editing job yet, and I swear I don't just say that every episode. I loved the stock video interlude so much.

One thing that helped me lessen my phone addiction was to stop using Twitter's mobile site or app, and instead using an app that cuts down on what it's been showing me (Twitterrific). It never shows me the people I follow liking something, or who they follow, etc. I'm pretty good at unfollowing in general, but the changes to Twitter over the years just made it impossible to not get exposed to doomy stuff. Baby steps to getting off social media forever, hopefully (I deleted Facebook in 2018).

good thing I've never found myself DoomScrolling.my TikTok and Twitter is mostly animals, cooking, comedy memes

also great editing, Jess

Great episode!

Finally the discussion about the difference in vibration sounds between a phone and a sextoy has happened. That made me laugh :)