My left hand — specifically my left pinkie finger — is exhausted. It’s from endlessly holding my iPhone.
Lately, I have come under the spell of Reels, short videos that appear magically on my Facebook page. This leads to mindless scrolling, which leads to my brain convulsing and my fingers cramping.
My problem is that I get hooked on these little videos, and, before you know it, I have spent 20, 30, 40 minutes of my precious life watching “talking” dogs, pranksters disguised as shrubs, peewee football players de-cleating the competition, men lip-syncing comedy routines in front of their eye-rolling wives and other random stuff that seems to have emerged from some forgotten junk drawer in my brain.
I can only guess that Facebook has somehow plugged me into an algorithm that is capable of measuring my attention span for different topics and then aiming a firehose of related video clips at my eyeballs.
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