Dave, your behavior indicates a possible existential crisis in the next hours.
How about watching people making food in the most ridiculous way on TikTok?
To be fair, being alone with your thoughts can be scary. That's why even before the Internet we read cereal boxes during breakfast, or shampoo bottles in the toilet.
Or, maybe these platforms have A/B tested dopamine hits for its users? Nothing to do with being alone just engineered technology tapping into our normal brain function.