Do you think videos of babies and kittens produce...

[LAS14]

... the same documented brain changes that cuddling them does? I suspect a little bit, but not enough.

What do you think?

[ismnotwasm]

1. Probably

I use them to relax sometimes. Seems to work

[Merlot]

2. Kittens, yes. Babies, no.

[qazplm135]

5. what an odd comment to make

less about the fact that you don't like babies or animals, more about the fact you felt a need to highlight that fact.

[qazplm135]

9. to literally billions of people

that do...just not to you.

Guess what, pretty much anything has importance to someone.

I'm sure there are things you find important that others do not.

That you felt you needed to open up this thread, read it, and then comment on how unimportant it is, says something about you.

(it's not a good thing)

[qazplm135]

12. didn't bother me

found it odd and commented as such.

Difference is, if you started a thread on how much you hated cat videos, I'd probably not waste my time and everyone else's going into it.

food for thought, free of charge.

[qazplm135]

14. interesting

so you think the only time anyone ever comments on something is if they are bothered by it?

Weird.

[qazplm135]

20. fascination more than objection

fascination that someone would come into a thread like this and comment in that way.

Curious.

Weird.

[LAS14]

16. I find ShermanA1's post totally appropriate. The point of...

... a discussion web site is to discuss. It interests me that some people don't react at all to these sort of posts.

[qazplm135]

21. I didn't say

it was "inappropriate."

I said it was weird that he'd come into the thread just to make that comment, not necessarily that it was weird that he doesn't like cat or baby videos.

If I thought it was inappropriate I would have said so or alerted.
And it's really not that interesting. There is nothing in this world that everyone is into.

[LAS14]

22. Alright, not weird. I was interested in all sorts of reactions to kitty and baby videos. nt

[LanternWaste]

7. And yet you post about being not interested about them...

That's neither absurdly ironic nor self-righteous at all.

[LAS14]

17. Here's what I said to qazpalm (sp???)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212201668#post16

[Ilsa]

19. I get it. I almost never click on the videos of

Kitties, puppies, or babies. I love them all, but they don't have this big impact on me, possibly because it's too two-dimensional and I need more sensory input.

[Shell_Seas]

4. Depends on the person. I don't think so, at all.

[Ferryboat]

6. 20 minutes of animal

Videos will make a bad day good. At least it works for me.

[MineralMan]

10. Probably not the same as physically cuddling them, but

probably the same brain effect as seeing them for real. Cuddling is a different thing, that produces different reactions in the brain. Physical touching has different effect that seeing.

The popularity of kitten, puppy, and baby videos, though, is a clear indication that they produce brain reactions that people find rewarding. If they did not, they wouldn't be so popular.

Not everyone reacts the same, though.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Babies, not so much. Kittens, more. Just there are differences between visual & tactile connections.

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[Karadeniz]

23. I always click onto animal posts...eases my mind!

[smirkymonkey]

24. Puppies, yes!

Kittens and babies, not so much for me. I could watch puppy videos all day. But I would still rather cuddle them. Since I rarely get an opportunity to cuddle though, videos are the next best thing.