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		AlchemistCamp on July 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you? YouTube is actually the one major social media network that has a more positive than negative psychological effect: https://www.psychalive.org/worst-mental-health-instagram-fac...

muzani on July 22, 2019 [–]

It depends a lot on the person. I don't get distracted at all by anything on YouTube; it's about as entertaining as a library to me. Same with something like TvTropes. My distraction channels are forums like Reddit and FB.

Different people have different closed loops.

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