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by tylerc230 1859 days ago
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the phrase "second screen". It was going to be big thing until people realized that no one wanted to look at 2 screens at once.
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That's not my experience. There's a constant background hum of "what else have I seen him/her in" in my house.

Not so much "lets all talk about this in realtime!" I admit, but there seems to be a subset of people who use Twitter/Reddit like that when watching politics or sports.

I'm one of them, for example eurovision or euro'20 in a few weeks. Memes and stuff it's literally better than watching it. It just become a base to make memes of
Nobody could have anticipated that YouTube poop would be more compelling than professionally produced television.
FWIW I do this all day at work now :)
Teenagers now have a third screen (TV + phone for friends + tablet for watching a streamer)