When watching stuff with friends, we pre-curate a list of perhaps 20, or fewer, titles so the "deciding which things we might watch" part is out of the way and, worst case, we can just easily select one at random and know it's something we wanted to watch.
We do this because of the very effect you mention: otherwise, we'll burn enough time to watch a good chunk of a movie, just scrolling.
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When watching stuff with friends, we pre-curate a list of perhaps 20, or fewer, titles so the "deciding which things we might watch" part is out of the way and, worst case, we can just easily select one at random and know it's something we wanted to watch.
We do this because of the very effect you mention: otherwise, we'll burn enough time to watch a good chunk of a movie, just scrolling.