Have you ever found yourself immersed in something totallymundane, like watching road workers fill in a pot hole or buses drive in and out of the bus stop? Chances are you have, which means you know that certain seemingly uninteresting things can be surprisingly captivating at times. That’s probably the reason why the ‘Not Interesting’ subreddit has over 950k members eagerly waiting for new completely-not-interesting-but-somehow-still-interesting content.
Today, we have put some examples of such mundane-looking content on this list for you to browse, covering everything from pictures of people making their beds to information you didn’t know you were interested in knowing; cause you probably weren’t. Scroll down to find the examples below and see if you can figure out what draws us to browsing this type of content.
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It’s difficult to explain why we browse the things we do sometimes. Sure, certain topics are clearly more interesting than others depending on personal preferences, which means we might spend hours on end learning about how to fix bikes or watching fashion bloggers discuss the latest trends, just to give a couple examples.But sometimes, even if we start with bikes andfashion, we might end up scrolling through things that are completely unrelated or, quite frankly, not interesting. Yet, we choose to continue scrolling nevertheless and focus on what’s happening on the screen.
It’s difficult to explain why we browse the things we do sometimes. Sure, certain topics are clearly more interesting than others depending on personal preferences, which means we might spend hours on end learning about how to fix bikes or watching fashion bloggers discuss the latest trends, just to give a couple examples.
But sometimes, even if we start with bikes andfashion, we might end up scrolling through things that are completely unrelated or, quite frankly, not interesting. Yet, we choose to continue scrolling nevertheless and focus on what’s happening on the screen.
“Interest and boredom and happiness all share something in common—whatever you consider interesting, boring, or joyful is idiosyncratic to you,” Dr. Danckert pointed out. “Others might find your interest boring, or your joyful activity mundane; the key thing is that whatever it is, it’s we who choose it.”
It’s no secret that nowadays many of our favored activities or interests are based ontechnology, which can be both a blessing and a curse for numerous reasons. For example, technology can provide us with information on nearly anything and everything in a matter of seconds, but it can also make us lose track of time as we scroll aimlessly instead of engaging in something more advantageous.
“People like to suggest that the internet has ruined our brains and that our attention spans have diminished to almost nothing,” Dr. Danckert told Bored Panda, highlighting another seemingly negative aspect of technology use in regards to interests. “But if that were true en masse then people would struggle to have conversations or readers would struggle to read this piece,” he added.“Clearly, the world still turns. It is true that for a small percentage of users—around 4%—the internet and smartphones, and social media can become problematic; and our boredom is one of the drivers behind these maladaptive relations to technology. But the problem is not the technology, it is how we engage with it and how we engage with the world around us more generally.”
“People like to suggest that the internet has ruined our brains and that our attention spans have diminished to almost nothing,” Dr. Danckert told Bored Panda, highlighting another seemingly negative aspect of technology use in regards to interests. “But if that were true en masse then people would struggle to have conversations or readers would struggle to read this piece,” he added.
“Clearly, the world still turns. It is true that for a small percentage of users—around 4%—the internet and smartphones, and social media can become problematic; and our boredom is one of the drivers behind these maladaptive relations to technology. But the problem is not the technology, it is how we engage with it and how we engage with the world around us more generally.”
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