This really isn't that functionally different from sotting down and watching TV
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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It is and isn't. I think that TV, as a longer-form of entertainment, has less harmful effects on attention-span, for example.
Hearing kids talk about not being able to focus long enough to watch a movie or tv show is a bummer.
Though that's not a property of phones, but of the media itself.
So what do you call it when older people do it, but the screen is further away (TV)?
Couch potato.
not just gen z. that's like every second or third day for me when my skeleton is like "fuck you old man, if you wanted to move now you shouldn't have been a tradesman"
So, likely major depressive disorder? I’m not surprised. The future looks bleak.
Don't forget about chronic diseases that keep people in bed all day.
Especially chronic gut diseases which have been skyrocketing and appear to be related to PFAs "forever chemicals" (that the USA recently decided to stop regulating )
Apparently I've been 20 years ahead of the curve. I didn't call it bed rotting (ew) I called it "fucking depressed leave me alone"
You're such a hipster, I just call it being alive
And 20 years ago it was books, magazines, newspaper, gameboys, etc. Nothing has changed.
magazines
yes, we had to keep a physical collection hidden under the bed
Why isn't GenZ participating in our accelerated hellscape?
GenZ are killing the Mr Bones Wild Ride industry
Genz is trying to what?
Man, I'm a fucking trend setter.
Isn't this just called having a lazy morning?
Like you wake up but don't feel like getting up yet, so you play about with your phone for a bit?
As long as you're not doing that for ages every single day, I'd say it's fairly normal behaviour. Sometimes you just need a bit to slouch you know.
No, they will get up and then go back to lay on their bed and scroll for hours
I’m pretty sure they are talking about doing this all day. It’s just a new name for major depressive disorder.
I just go back to sleep lol. If I'm too lazy to get up, I'm usually too lazy to go on my phone.
Back in my day, we just rotted in bed ruminating on negative thoughts. We didn't have no memes, except what was in our imaginations!
We imagined our own memes, and we liked it.
You call it "imagining memes"; I call it "fantasizing while masturbating"
We are probably the same
Did you though?
Shower thoughts are imagined memes.
I think so. Dignified Boomers and Gen Xers perhaps "armchair rot" so as to mitigate back problems.
Nah, I'm officerotting. Probably the only thing I've managed to do so far today is contribute to Lemmy network effect :P
My life in Infosec. It's super boring until suddenly it's not.
This is why I play Nethack.
Turn-based. Fully interruptible.
ASCII-based. Fully playable in an 80x24 ssh tty that nobody will notice and take approximately no bandwidth.
Isn’t that what they referred to as couch potatoes in boomer time?
Pretty much. Same shit, different corn.
Kinds the days… are entirely relatable.
Throw in a couple of beers and that's a perfect day.
I read “beers” as “bees” and was really confused. Although a few bees wouldn’t hurt as long as you don’t antagonize them.
You fucking psycho.
Think of how many times you'll need to get out of bed to piss.
(This comment brought to you by shots of vodka)
I remember when social media was going to brain-rot the kids, it ended up brain-rotting the boomers.
This is going to be the same, this is the braindead for the boomers.
I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It'll get anyone that spends long enough online.
Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I've got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.
I used to do it with a PC next to my bed. Scroll-wheel mouse was the tits.
Yes we did it before, but with a cool name we do it more!
That Genz dude is so pathetic!
I do that every day. For 5-7 hours. I call it "sleeping". Scientists call that the same.
Sleeping...with a phone?
It's called sleep scrolling, get on with the times.
Your comment makes me feel unaccountably old, even though I'm fairly sure that's not a thing. Well, moderately sure. Somewhat sure. I'm not sure I could handle seeing the news twice!
Yes, I keep it nearby.
Nearby is one thing, but "bed rotting" involves lying in bed staring at your phone, typically mindlessly consuming media of some sort, and not getting up or sleeping. The post is ambiguous though, so if you were deliberately musunderstanding, then I apologise for misunderstanding your misunderstanding!