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I used to in college. Extremely bad habit, was easy to spend 4+ hours there just hitting the right arrow.


Same. I stopped when I realised it was passively teaching me celebrity gossip, which I never wanted to know.


It's so easy to absorb 'celebrity' gossip, I always wondered if it'd be possible to do the same with say science or maths, if it was presented in the same kind of format.


I think the hardest part is the rigour. Math and science build on concepts over time, and mastery is easier with more hands-on experience. Just presenting it to someone in a feed might be waaay too passive for absorption.


Easy way to find out. Remove the pictures from celebrity gossip posts, and see how much you remember.


Somehow I’d always end up doing this most right in the middle of finals.


You can actually spend days doing that…




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