I ride the public bus every day, and I can tell you its basically all social media, messaging, YouTube and phone/video calls.

But you don’t have to do the same thing everyone else does. You can play digital card games, chess, read a book, or put your phone in your pocket and listen to podcasts or music. And if you’re not commuting, you can plug your phone in and do actual stuff.

Social media and fact checking stuff

Why the fuck are you asking me, damn.

I’ll second the idea that more than a few minutes of tiktok, YouTube shorts or Instagram reels is debilitating.

My phone has an FM tuner, so I usually listen to local radio stations. Sometimes I watch TV shows or movies I downloaded on the SD card, but I prefer watching videos on a larger screen when possible. Cell service is crap around here, so streaming is not very practical.

I watch stuff on libretube…But I’m not normal.

My amazing wife is normie/10, she watches usually TikTok cooking recipes or makeup videos. I’m trash man husbae, so I’m on Lemmy here with you

I’m not qualified to answer that

Normal people seem to look at a lot of social media, yes. Instagram, tiktok, whatever. Some people also have a lot of group chats.

Some people read. Your library probably offers free ebooks. Comics, too, when I want something even simpler.

From my observations: Normal people don’t look at their phone; they listen to it.

If you’re expecting normal people to answer: Do you even know where you are right now? :p

I like to look at different cooking techniques and recipes. You have to eat everyday, why not make it fun and delicious!

You know how you scroll through your Instagram feed and then stop when you get to the big checkmark?

Yeah, normal people keep scrolling. For literally an hour or two at a time.

If I ever find a normal person I’ll ask them for you.

I look at lemmy or mastodon but I am very much less than normal.

Heh, look at you, asking this in Lemmy, as if we’re all normal.