She watches crazy recipe videos and food challenges but not to learn how to cook, he checks the bodybuilders calcium and muscles.
Thus, by shaking the mobile phone, they can even spend hours without realizing it.
This is the 'trap' our teenagers fall into, by their own admission.
With the waste of time they hunt for solutions to quit.
Here's what they told us in the
ANSA LIFESTYLE
survey .
“We are enchanted” they themselves declare, also referring to trying escape routes, for example by uninstalling the most time-wasting apps or inserting blocks.
The social network that traps the most?
TikTok
and getting out of it is really difficult.
Being stunned to look at the smartphone screen is not a habit at school, mind you.
Time flies in this mode especially at home or on public transport.
It certainly steals time from other activities or erases the benefits that real 'dead time' could give to the mind if it wasn't filled with something else.
The same teenagers, girls and boys aged fifteen and sixteen told us about it, listened to to know their social habits of the moment.
“I realized that I was wasting too much time looking at Instagram and Tik Tok.
So
I put blocks not to overdo it
and now I mostly watch YouTube shorts, which are quite equivalent but at least I've reduced the wasted time, - Isabel points out.
Valerio F. admits that free time runs by with the phone in hand and ends sooner: “I am dazed by seeing videos and images related to what I was initially looking for and which appear in a continuous stream, one after the other.
Hard to stop scrolling
(ed. swipe your finger on the phone screen)”.
“On Instagram I follow the reels, very short videos, and then I continue to watch random videos and, even if I try not to linger, they trap me.
Many are on food, or on sport.
They are so short that I don't follow any particular characters.
In doing so, from the 5 minutes I had in mind, half hours and more go by, - confirms Stefano, who mainly uses Instagram and has stopped using YouTube so as not to waste time.
“At first I had some blocks but they just annoyed me so I try not to run into them.
I uninstalled TikTok, it was too sucking”.
Girls are especially fascinated by watching crazy recipe videos (nothing to do with cooking lessons).
“I watch so many on Youtube.
There are new creators, including Masterchef winners, such as Nick Di Giovanni (ed. over 8 million subscribers to the YouTube channel), - Isabel points out.
“Recipe videos often happen in between other videos and so I happen to watch them,” adds Tea.
“They are not videos in which defined and perhaps traditional recipes are explained.
They assemble even improbable ingredients, then throw everything in the oven.
They are irresistible but they don't teach you how to cook"
, explains Letizia.
“I look at food challenges, like food versus man.
They are food-based challenges, even trashy but with a very high level of enchantment, - explains Eleonora.
– Some people go to restaurants or pubs and compete on how much food they can eat in a given time.
They are international videos, often American but also Korean or from around the world”.
“There are also Italian food creators who instead give directions for making dishes that we like.
For example, Diletta Secco (editor's note: over 1,300,000 followers on TikTok), Eleonora points out that she admits that she spends too much time especially looking at TikTok while Instagram no longer interests her.
– Her crunchy recipes are famous.
Then Carlotta's botanical kitchen, which offers easy vegan recipes.
Many of her friends follow her ”.
“Some of her recipes I make with my mother but I often shake and look at the next one, - Sara points out.
“I also mostly watch TikTok but I don't follow particular characters.
I watch videos that enchant me and relax me, from cooking videos to tidying up the houses, - underlines Cristina.
“Yes, food videos, especially when assembled in a strange way, are bewitching and you pass the time.
Seeing how they assemble, mix the ingredients relaxes, - adds Tea.
– It happens that in these videos they assemble biscuits with hazelnut cream, then add more biscuits, and then mascarpone.
Finally they eat them declaring that they are even good!
And down the comments avalanche, then I read those”.
I watch videos that enchant me and relax me, from cooking videos to tidying up the houses, - underlines Cristina.
“Yes, food videos, especially when assembled in a strange way, are bewitching and you pass the time.
Seeing how they assemble, mix the ingredients relaxes, - adds Tea.
– It happens that in these videos they assemble biscuits with hazelnut cream, then add more biscuits, and then mascarpone.
Finally they eat them declaring that they are even good!
And down the comments avalanche, then I read those”.
I watch videos that enchant me and relax me, from cooking videos to tidying up the houses, - underlines Cristina.
“Yes, food videos, especially when assembled in a strange way, are bewitching and you pass the time.
Seeing how they assemble, mix the ingredients relaxes, - adds Tea.
– It happens that in these videos they assemble biscuits with hazelnut cream, then add more biscuits, and then mascarpone.
Finally they eat them declaring that they are even good!
And down the comments avalanche, then I read those”.
– It happens that in these videos they assemble biscuits with hazelnut cream, then add more biscuits, and then mascarpone.
Finally they eat them declaring that they are even good!
And down the comments avalanche, then I read those”.
– It happens that in these videos they assemble biscuits with hazelnut cream, then add more biscuits, and then mascarpone.
Finally they eat them declaring that they are even good!
And down the comments avalanche, then I read those”.
The crazy recipe video boom
was born and exploded at the time of the various lockdowns due to the Covid pandemic and shows no signs of decreasing.
Beyond the kitchen, the most renowned influencers in the world like the Kardashian sisters, queens of Instagram, have an evident relaxing effect on kids.
The teenagers follow Gigi Hadid and many other models.
"And Federica Scagnetti (ed. 2 and a half million followers on TikTok, about 750 thousand on Instagram) and Pamela Paolini (ed. 2.4 million followers on TikTok) who makes all kinds of videos about her day and became famous preparing porridge - says Eleanor.
TikTok is the most time-wastering social network of all, according to the boys.
"It is certainly the most dazzling social network even if it often invites you to go to Instagram," Giorgia points out.
They have less 'enchantment' effect but podcasts edited by experts are increasingly popular, replacing what for previous generations were gossip magazines.
“An American girl, on her Not Skinny but Not Fat channel, publishes podcasts where she reports the latest news on celebrities, - explains Tea.
“I follow Elisa True Crime's podcasts on Youtube and Spotify (Ed by Elisa De Marco, who tells of investigations into crime news, heinous crimes and unsolved enigmas) and has also collaborated with Netflix, - adds Isabel.
“I follow the kitchen, many food challenges but also many videos on football, players in comparison and YouTubers with video games - explains Andrea.
– Or I enchant myself with the humorous, amusing ones even if so many times taken for granted”.
“
which tells of investigations of crime news, of heinous crimes and unsolved enigmas) and has also made a collaboration with Netflix, - adds Isabel.
“I follow the kitchen, many food challenges but also many videos on football, players in comparison and YouTubers with video games - explains Andrea.
– Or I enchant myself with the humorous, amusing ones even if so many times taken for granted”.
“
which tells of investigations of crime news, of heinous crimes and unsolved enigmas) and has also made a collaboration with Netflix, - adds Isabel.
“I follow the kitchen, many food challenges but also many videos on football, players in comparison and YouTubers with video games - explains Andrea.
– Or I enchant myself with the humorous, amusing ones even if so many times taken for granted”.
“
On Instagram, I also follow influencers
like beautiful models, - underlines Dario, - but I also watch a lot of
bodybuilder and diet videos
.
Plus motivational videos to stop procrastinating and commit to the gym.
Or the videos where they show how to get more muscles, like abs and pectorals”.
Valerio also confirms the internal struggle between him and some social networks with a 'dozing' effect: “I too am thinking of uninstalling TikTok because, even if I set myself time limits, I am unable to respect them.
I watch football videos, or funny and entertaining videos both Italian and international but scrolling traps you and you can't stop.
Youtube, on the other hand, is less absorbing”.
