[JustAnotherPat]

>"Sarah, a 14-year-old in New York, describes it this way: “I’ll go on Insta and it’s just people all talking about the same things. I’m like, I already heard that or I already saw that. It’s like, when you’ve seen everything there is to see in your Insta feed or on the internet. We see the same lip gloss, the same eyebrow style, the same meme like 14 times. It all gets old and then you get bored.”"

Incredibly sad that this is what the internet has been reduced to. It's not the internet that's boring; it's your vapid social circle!

[JoeAltmaier]

Maybe the medium is partly at fault. How can you sustain any sensible discussion in the noisy mess of Insta etc? You can try but it reduces to catchphrases and catty remarks so easily. Even here on HN its a constant fight to keep folks on topic and contributing usefully. How much harder in the wild, wild internet!

[srtjstjsj]

YouTube is full of fascinating stuff for all hobbies. But it's hard to find because there's no quality filter, only popularity filters that promote clickbait.

[ytNumbers]

There's plenty of great content on YouTube. If you spend a day or two watching quality videos, YouTube will then start recommending other quality videos with a similar worldview. How do you find that first day or two worth of quality YouTube channels?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7xn6yv/what_yout...

[turc1656]

Yes, exactly. Also, the other problem is that the sites rolled into these teens' definition of "the internet" is probably no greater than about 10-12 websites, most (if not all) being social media - Facebook, Instragram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest, Youtube, and Reddit. Those 8 sites right there probably account for 97% of their entire "internet". It basically boils down to, "you're doing it wrong!"