As an introvert, I find it stressful to watch TV shows about relationships after spending a day around people. Watching some sort of documentary/news/etc. is ok though. However, I hadn't thought consciously about this until reading the link.<p>Conversely, my extroverted wife enjoys watching shows about relationships, even when she's tired.
i know this position often comes off as smug, but I make an appeal to fellow hackers: try not watching TV for a few months as an experiment and see how <i>creepy</i> TV watching becomes.
I watch TV shows on DVD and I can relax and enjoy them. It is is nothing like the constant blaring "You Suck...Buy This" rancor that is TV.<p>Life is just not that dramatic and a little escapism is fun. It just sucks when life starts imitating art and people start acting out all the time.
I think the same can be said for books or, in fact, any form of storytelling (for lack of a better word).<p>I, for one, was devastated when the Harry Potter series ended. Ditto for the Hitchhiker's Guide.
From the headline, I was expecting the correlation to be that more TV watching equals more loneliness. At least, that's been my experience. The years I spent without a TV were the most productive, and least lonely, of my life. (Of course, those years were also before the advent of the web, so there was a lot less time online, as well, which may be a factor.)<p>As David Mamet put it, "Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment."
My TV just died, an hour ago.<p>I'm not sure how I feel about it. Predominantly, yet another thing that has failed while I'm between jobs. And it was a rather nice, if CRT, model.<p>I have been using it to lessen the loneliness of so much time alone.<p>(Maybe it tired of the codependency?)
Back when I still used to watch TV, the only channel that I really liked simply brought either very early TV programs (from the days where TV was new to everybody), or documentaries/interviews from 20-30 years back in time.<p>Maybe nobody would believe it nowadays, but TV people (on both sides) were very different then (more attention to details, more patience, more regard to each other).<p>Every year coming, the whole scene is freezing a little more, they even take away both colors and light nowadays (in current movies), this whole artificial spectacle will finish in the dark...
I added the original source as this here is just a comment saying "there's a cool post":
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736181" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736181</a>